Blinking red battery light on XO-1

2012-08-03 Thread Hal Murray
rich...@laptop.org said: Blinking Red is error. Next time it happens can you please boot to OFW and do ok watch-battery Then press a key to make watch-battery exit. When it exits it will tell you what the error is. Please pass that on. I just got one. When I got to OFW, it told me

Re: Blinking red battery light on XO-1

2012-08-03 Thread James Cameron
On Fri, Aug 03, 2012 at 02:04:10PM -0700, Hal Murray wrote: When I got to OFW, it told me the lid switch was active and gave me 8 seconds before it powered off. Presumably the lid switch was not actually active and the EC was misbehaving. Onk XO-1, the magneto resistive sensor for the lid

Re: Blinking red battery light on XO-1

2012-08-03 Thread Hal Murray
qu...@laptop.org said: To avoid it powering off, type lid-off and press enter. Yes, you only have eight seconds to do this. The printout said that, but I didn't even get started typing before it timed out. I'm not sure where 8 seconds came from. If that happened often enough I'd probably

Re: Blinking red battery light on XO-1

2012-08-03 Thread James Cameron
On Fri, Aug 03, 2012 at 08:38:05PM -0700, Hal Murray wrote: qu...@laptop.org said: To avoid it powering off, type lid-off and press enter. Yes, you only have eight seconds to do this. The printout said that, but I didn't even get started typing before it timed out. Yes, but I wanted