Hello, Is there a way to make apm's or apmd's estimates of the time left on a battery charge more accurate?
I just booted my laptop (a Sony VAIO PCG-C1XS with the stock hardware) after several days of not having used it. APM reported as I logged in that I had 39% battery charge left and 136 minutes of use remaining. I wish that were true, but based on experience, with this older battery I can expect about 20 to 25 minutes charge. Since I am using a wireless card, the usable time is actually significantly lower, and I acknowledge and accept that. That is not the issue. The problem is, that as the charge decreases, the time remaining on the charge becomes more and more unrealistic. For example, I know have 21% charge remaining and that equates out to 89 minutes, according to apm. I have gone from 136 minutes remaining to 89 minutes remaining in the space of about 7 minutes. Is there any way to get apm to accurately calculate the rate of discharge? To what extent does this depend on my laptop's BIOS? Cheers, Sean -- Theo. Sean Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
