[opensuse] Laptop shuts down when 1 of 2 batteries drained
I have a Thinkpad T60p running openSuSE 10.2. If I use both the main battery and a modular bay battery, the machine shuts down due to critically low battery when 1 of the 2 is drained. When I start up again, it uses the other and continues. Is anyone else experiencing this? Andy -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Wednesday 21 March 2007, Andrew Hill wrote:
I have a Thinkpad T60p running openSuSE 10.2. If I use both the main battery and a modular bay battery, the machine shuts down due to critically low battery when 1 of the 2 is drained. When I start up again, it uses the other and continues. Is anyone else experiencing this?
Andy
My Sony Vaio will use both batteries (seemingly alternating between the two). Which ever has the higher charge is used. However, if either gets critically low the machine shuts off and on occasion, refused to come back on when given shore power till that battery had charged above the critical level. Your machine's behavior sounds wrong, because it sounds like yours drains one before switching to the other, forcing it to go thru critical level. -- _____________________________________ John Andersen
On Wed, 21 Mar 2007 11:41:11 -0500
Andrew Hill
I have a Thinkpad T60p running openSuSE 10.2. If I use both the main battery and a modular bay battery, the machine shuts down due to critically low battery when 1 of the 2 is drained. When I start up again, it uses the other and continues. Is anyone else experiencing this?
Andy
I have a HP nw8240 and I think I have the same problem also. Today I was using the laptop unplugged and since having recently upgraded to 10.2 am having to to use kpowersave in order to suspend. While on the battery, I did notice that both batteries were shown, but as it was discharging kpowersave it looked like was only paying attention to the battery that was draining. This laptop will drain the travel batter before the primary one. So, if I had left the laptop on the whole time, I think it would have shutdown due to the alarms that are set up. kpowersave should look at the total number of batteries and compute the time remaining based on both, not just the currently discharging battery. I am going to try to verify that this is the case and if so create a bug for it, if one doesn't already exist. edward -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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Andrew Hill
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