laptop battery on 8.0

Zoran Kolic zkolic at sbb.rs
Sat Dec 12 15:37:22 UTC 2009


Howdy!

> surely there might be a mistake in how data are parsed,
> but remember that the "remaining time" is computed based
> on remaining capacity and recent average current.
> So, if for any reason (cpu/disk/network load decreases, screensaver,
> etc.) the current decreases, the reported time goes up.
> It happens all the time with 'acpiconf -i batt' even on 7.x.

My worry is could I damage the laptop with discrepance
11.1 V  ->  14.8 V. I could live with no "life" in acpi.
At least, it worked correctly on all previous versions
and also on 8.0 with old batery.
Thanks for answering! Best regards

                                       Zoran



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