Re: [gentoo-user] [Somewhat OT] Laptop battery not showing up in KDE, Smart Battery calibration

2010-11-24 Thread Paul Hartman
On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 12:43 AM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 12:03 AM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 1:11 PM, J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote: On Thursday 11 November 2010 18:07:35 Paul Hartman

Re: [gentoo-user] [Somewhat OT] Laptop battery not showing up in KDE, Smart Battery calibration

2010-11-24 Thread Fatih Tümen
On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 22:51, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.compaul.hartman%2bgen...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 12:43 AM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com paul.hartman%2bgen...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 12:03 AM, Paul Hartman

Re: [gentoo-user] [Somewhat OT] Laptop battery not showing up in KDE, Smart Battery calibration

2010-11-24 Thread Paul Hartman
2010/11/24 Fatih Tümen fthtmn+gen...@gmail.com: On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 22:51, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 12:43 AM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 12:03 AM, Paul Hartman

Re: [gentoo-user] [Somewhat OT] Laptop battery not showing up in KDE, Smart Battery calibration

2010-11-24 Thread Fatih Tümen
On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 06:49, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.compaul.hartman%2bgen...@gmail.com wrote: 2010/11/24 Fatih Tümen fthtmn+gen...@gmail.comfthtmn%2bgen...@gmail.com : On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 22:51, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com

Re: [gentoo-user] [Somewhat OT] Laptop battery not showing up in KDE, Smart Battery calibration

2010-11-20 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 12:03 AM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 1:11 PM, J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote: On Thursday 11 November 2010 18:07:35 Paul Hartman wrote: On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 12:05 PM, J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote: If the

Re: [gentoo-user] [Somewhat OT] Laptop battery not showing up in KDE, Smart Battery calibration

2010-11-16 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 1:11 PM, J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote: On Thursday 11 November 2010 18:07:35 Paul Hartman wrote: On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 12:05 PM, J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote: If the soldering isn't done correctly, the battery-pack can literally explode when put

Re: [gentoo-user] [Somewhat OT] Laptop battery not showing up in KDE, Smart Battery calibration

2010-11-11 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 11:00 AM, Petri Rosenström petri.rosenst...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 11:52 PM, Paul Hartman 2) If I click on the Power Management in the KDE system settings, it says Number of CPUs 0 Number of batteries 0 and battery-related options are greyed out.

Re: [gentoo-user] [Somewhat OT] Laptop battery not showing up in KDE, Smart Battery calibration

2010-11-11 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 12:05 PM, J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote: Has anyone tried to replace the cells inside their own battery? I'm reading this site: http://www.electronics-lab.com/articles/Li_Ion_reconstruct/ Seems kind of dangerous... I can't price the cells because I haven't

Re: [gentoo-user] [Somewhat OT] Laptop battery not showing up in KDE, Smart Battery calibration

2010-11-11 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Thursday 11 November 2010 18:07:35 Paul Hartman wrote: On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 12:05 PM, J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote: If the soldering isn't done correctly, the battery-pack can literally explode when put under load. Yeah, I don't think the savings would be big enough to

Re: [gentoo-user] [Somewhat OT] Laptop battery not showing up in KDE, Smart Battery calibration

2010-11-10 Thread Fatih Tümen
On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 23:52, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I have a laptop running Gentoo (with dual-boot to Windows XP). It was manufactured in 2004 and battery life have been consistent for all those years. However, it sat dormant for almost a year, after which I

Re: [gentoo-user] [Somewhat OT] Laptop battery not showing up in KDE, Smart Battery calibration

2010-11-10 Thread Petri Rosenström
Hi, On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 11:52 PM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I have a laptop running Gentoo (with dual-boot to Windows XP). It was manufactured in 2004 and battery life have been consistent for all those years. However, it sat dormant for almost a year, after

Re: [gentoo-user] [Somewhat OT] Laptop battery not showing up in KDE, Smart Battery calibration

2010-11-10 Thread Paul Hartman
2010/11/10 Fatih Tümen fthtmn+gen...@gmail.com: On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 23:52, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I have a laptop running Gentoo (with dual-boot to Windows XP). It was manufactured in 2004 and battery life have been consistent for all those years. However,

Re: [gentoo-user] [Somewhat OT] Laptop battery not showing up in KDE, Smart Battery calibration

2010-11-10 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wednesday 10 November 2010 18:05:40 Paul Hartman wrote: 2010/11/10 Fatih Tümen fthtmn+gen...@gmail.com: On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 23:52, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, snipped Last night I took it to full charge, put in memtest86+ boot CD and the system

[gentoo-user] [Somewhat OT] Laptop battery not showing up in KDE, Smart Battery calibration

2010-11-09 Thread Paul Hartman
Hi, I have a laptop running Gentoo (with dual-boot to Windows XP). It was manufactured in 2004 and battery life have been consistent for all those years. However, it sat dormant for almost a year, after which I did a few days worth of updating to bring it up to current kernel and ~amd64 package

Re: [gentoo-user] [Somewhat OT] Laptop battery not showing up in KDE, Smart Battery calibration

2010-11-09 Thread Maciej Grela
2010/11/9 Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com: Hi, I have a laptop running Gentoo (with dual-boot to Windows XP). It was manufactured in 2004 and battery life have been consistent for all those years. However, it sat dormant for almost a year, after which I did a few days worth of