On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 10:35 AM, Mick <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi All, > > It seems that my laptop battery is about to give up the ghost. It > used to run all the way down to 2% before the machine shut down (well, > it actually never shut down - just crashed). Now it is knocked out > with as much as 10-11% left. Is there some setting I can configure to > control this, or is it a matter of battery strength/health? > > PS. When I run /etc/init.d/cpufreqd I get: > > Apr 16 16:33:47 lappy cpufreqd: cpufreqd_set_profile : Couldn't > set profile "Performance Low" set for cpu0 > > What's missing there?
I'm not an expert and this is just a guess. If the battery/computer has some "time remaining" calculation that it uses, 10% power remaining now might give the same amount of usable time as 2% used to, if the battery is discharging faster than before.
