On Thursday 16 April 2009, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 10:35 AM, Mick <michaelkintz...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > It seems that my laptop battery is about to give up the ghost. It > > used to run all the way down to 2% before the machine shut down (well, > > it actually never shut down - just crashed). Now it is knocked out > > with as much as 10-11% left. Is there some setting I can configure to > > control this, or is it a matter of battery strength/health? > > > > PS. When I run /etc/init.d/cpufreqd I get: > > > > Apr 16 16:33:47 lappy cpufreqd: cpufreqd_set_profile : Couldn't > > set profile "Performance Low" set for cpu0 > > > > What's missing there? > > I'm not an expert and this is just a guess. If the battery/computer > has some "time remaining" calculation that it uses, 10% power > remaining now might give the same amount of usable time as 2% used to, > if the battery is discharging faster than before.
Right, that's what I thought too. The battery cannot 'keep its charge' when under load. Is cpufreqd and cpufrequtils enough to gracefully shutdown the laptop, or is there some additional configuration required (fancy runlevels and what have you)? -- Regards, Mick
