On Fri, 12 Dec 2008, Daryl Styrk wrote: > My t61 always stops at 96% You have set it to do that (maybe the last time when you ran Windows and the battery life maximizer system decided you didn't really need it at 100%.. it informed you of that, but you might not recall it), and it will retain that setting until you remove AC and all batteries.
IBM thinkpads and Lenovo models older than the T61 will power down the EC when they are turned off, and AC is removed. The T61 and everything newer than that apparently power down the EC only if both AC and the batteries are unplugged. A Renesas H8S EC (which is what ThinkPads use since basically forever) draws a few micro watts when in sleep mode, so one can see why Lenovo decided to just not power it down to retain all settings and keep an eye on the battery pack permanently (the battery pack is a SBS battery pack, and therefore also has a microcontroller that is NEVER powered down. In fact, it knows when it was first used, how much of its lifetime it has spent charging and discharging, etc). -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
