My temporary band-aid solution was to install xfce4-power-manager which
has a slider in the status icon menu, so now I can set it (not really a
feature I want or need, but has some utility) or just check it from
there. It works for now. I'm still looking. It also allowed me to remove
the power
I just got my brightness keys working and I'm looking for a pretty
minimal "brightness indicator" to show me a rough percentage. I am
explicitly trying to avoid any Gnome or KDE dependencies, and would
prefer not to use the AUR, if there's a good one in the main repos. I'm
thinking it might
Sounds good. Thanks for your help.
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On 2/13/22 13:48, Jonathon Fernyhough via arch-general wrote:
This drop in capacity normally indicates the battery has reached (or in
this case, gone well past) the end of its serviceable life.
Yah I pretty much figured the battery is probably toast at this point. I
just want to make sure that
On 2/13/22 03:17, Jonathon Fernyhough via arch-general wrote:
As I say, a more standard kernel would be worth trying, `linux` for 5.16
and `linux-lts` for 5.15.
I've installed the 'linux' kernel package and 'linux-headers'. That did
allow me the ability to run powertop.
Given the age of the
On 2/13/22 01:42, Jonathon Fernyhough via arch-general wrote:
I might be missing something in the original post, but I can't see
anything specific about what sort of problem you're having, or what
indicates power management doesn't work.
It is showing a low battery capacity, at 1.9% and not be
I can't get power management working on my laptop. I have tlp-stat
installed and it's showing a 1.9% capacity, but I don't think that's an
accurate figure. This is a fairly new install. It worked fine under windows.
I've been trying a lot of things, but at this point it feels more like
I'm jus
