Russell Coker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > You may find that it goes from 40% to 1% in a matter of minutes as my > Thinkpads do when their battery's are over a year old.
I've noticed my aging laptop (an 18-month-old Dell Latitude C600) doing something similar: on battery, the reported charge drops pretty steadily from 100% to 60% or so, then dives over the next few minutes to 8%. But it usually runs for about another 20 minutes once it gets there, hovering for 6-8 minutes at 4%. > To get accurate battery estimates you need to monitor the life of > the battery as it fully discharges. I think that the software on > some handheld devices does this, but APM on Linux doesn't. I run 'watch ibam -a' in an xterm; ibam seems to get a pretty good idea of what the actual battery life is if you run it long enough. -- David Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://people.debian.org/~dmaze/ "Theoretical politics is interesting. Politicking should be illegal." -- Abra Mitchell
