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From: Colin Leroy <colin@colino•net>
To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel•crashing.org>
Cc: linuxppc-dev <linuxppc-dev@ozlabs•org>
Subject: Re: PMU questions
Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 08:34:32 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041019083432.01b947d3@pirandello> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1098143379.18687.44.camel@gaston>

On 19 Oct 2004 at 09h10, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:

Hi Ben, 

thanks for your answer!

> Happens all the time on Apple laptops lately. My tipb battery is now
> half of it's capacity. Browse the archives on the web, you'll see that
> it's a common disease with those.

Ah, nice ("nice") to know... It looks like the more these batteries are
"smart", the faster they get fucked up...

> You can try the following: disable pmud & pbbuttonsd, and let the
> machine on & drain the battery until it shuts down by itself (empty
> battery). Do_not_ let it go to sleep or whatever pmud does when it
> thinks your battery is closed to exhausted. Drain the battery
> completely.

You mean until the laptop shuts down by itself ?

> Then, do a full charge, and drain it again completely. 
> Do that a few times. 

Without resetting the PMU ?

> If that doesn't help, then I'm afraid you have to
> ask apple for a replacement battery.

Yes, I think I'll do this. For the record, I found compatible batteries
a little less pricey than Apple's ones here:
http://store.craytonelectronics.com/apibba2.html  

-- 
Colin

  reply	other threads:[~2004-10-19  6:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-10-18 21:20 PMU questions Colin Leroy
2004-10-18 23:49 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-10-19  6:34   ` Colin Leroy [this message]
2004-10-19  6:40     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-10-20  7:46       ` Colin Leroy
2004-10-20  7:49         ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-10-20  8:57         ` John Steele Scott
2004-10-21 12:35   ` Jon Masters

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