[Slightly OT] Laptop battery draining in Lenny

2010-07-30 Thread Mark
I am curious how others on this list manage their laptop batteries while using Debian. From doing some research, there doesn't appear to be many (if any) software solutions for draining a laptop battery completely, before recharging. So what do people on this list do - just keep running Debian

Re: [Slightly OT] Laptop battery draining in Lenny

2010-07-30 Thread Michael Iatrou
When the date was Friday 30 of July 2010, Mark wrote: I am curious how others on this list manage their laptop batteries while using Debian. From doing some research, there doesn't appear to be many (if any) software solutions for draining a laptop battery completely, before recharging.

RE: [Slightly OT] Laptop battery draining in Lenny

2010-07-30 Thread Mike Viau
Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2010 11:24:52 -0700 Subject: [Slightly OT] Laptop battery draining in Lenny From: mamar...@gmail.com To: debian-user@lists.debian.org I am curious how others on this list manage their laptop batteries while using Debian. From doing some research, there doesn't appear

Re: [Slightly OT] Laptop battery draining in Lenny

2010-07-30 Thread Christian Jaeger
2010/7/30 Mark mamar...@gmail.com: Or do you shutdown  when the battery reaches, say, 5%? I just ordered a few laptop battery replacements I guess you're talking about Lithium ion or Lithium polymer batteries (as all modern devices are using either of those)? Then you do rather *not* want to

Re: [Slightly OT] Laptop battery draining in Lenny

2010-07-30 Thread Gilbert Sullivan
On 07/30/2010 08:08 PM, Christian Jaeger wrote: 2010/7/30 Markmamar...@gmail.com: Or do you shutdown when the battery reaches, say, 5%? I just ordered a few laptop battery replacements I guess you're talking about Lithium ion or Lithium polymer batteries (as all modern devices are using

Re: [Slightly OT] Laptop battery draining in Lenny

2010-07-30 Thread Mark
On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 5:08 PM, Christian Jaeger chr...@gmail.com wrote: 2010/7/30 Mark mamar...@gmail.com: Or do you shutdown when the battery reaches, say, 5%? I just ordered a few laptop battery replacements I guess you're talking about Lithium ion or Lithium polymer batteries

Re: [Slightly OT] Laptop battery draining in Lenny

2010-07-30 Thread Christian Jaeger
2010/7/30 Mark mamar...@gmail.com: Thank you Christian.  Correct, Li-ion is the discussion here.  So is there a way to keep the battery in the laptop, without it charging to 100%?  Both machines in this case are Dell's, one Inspiron and one XPS, both 5+ years old. Yes, see the Tp_smapi link

Re: [Slightly OT] Laptop battery draining in Lenny

2010-07-30 Thread Mark
On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 6:10 PM, Christian Jaeger chr...@gmail.com wrote: 2010/7/30 Mark mamar...@gmail.com: Thank you Christian. Correct, Li-ion is the discussion here. So is there a way to keep the battery in the laptop, without it charging to 100%? Both machines in this case are

Re: [Slightly OT] Laptop battery draining in Lenny

2010-07-30 Thread Lawrence Cadden
On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 9:10 PM, Christian Jaeger chr...@gmail.com wrote: 2010/7/30 Mark mamar...@gmail.com: Thank you Christian. Correct, Li-ion is the discussion here. So is there a way to keep the battery in the laptop, without it charging to 100%? Both machines in this case are

Re: [Slightly OT] Laptop battery draining in Lenny

2010-07-30 Thread Christian Jaeger
2010/7/30 Mark mamar...@gmail.com: Unless I'm reading the ThinkWiki wrong Tp_smapi is not compatible with my machines... Then I don't know, you'll have to find out about alternatives yourself or hope someone else points them out, if they exist (I also guess not all hardware allows to do that).