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
next prev parent 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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