Re: [SLE] laptop battery and SuSE 9.3

Quoting Kurt R. Rahlfs <regist@affinityComputerMasters.com>:

I made a clean install of SuSE 9.3 on my IBM thinkpad A20M laptop. It previously had 8.2. The battery drains unmercifully when in APM mode whenever I close the lid. It doesn't fully charge in ACPI mode. I use configure-thinkpad in APM mode and powersaved in ACPI mode.

Discharge/recharge cycles are hard on lithium-ion batteries, so batteries are only recharged when the charge level is below a certain level, somewhere in the range of 90-95%, I think. This is my experience on a T41 w/ SuSE 9.2. HTH, Jeffrey