Re: Short battery life on Powerbook Prismo

[marshal@h9.dion.ne.jp]

>>>>> "masik" == masik  <masik@debian.cz> writes:

    >> A funny thing that does happen is that on my battery meter
    >> under gkrellm, I see the numbers go down, and they match the
    >> LEDs on the battery.  But the moment it hits around 50%, BLAM,
    >> goes to sleep...  Any ideas about that?
    >> 

    > Hi,

    > I had the same experience. What helped was to leave the
    > batteries discharge completely a couple of times without any
    > power management running (/etc/init.d/pmud stop). It looks like
    > a calibration issue as although the gkrellm battery plugin was
    > blinking red my Pismo could run happily for another hour or
    > more. Pmud probably put the machine to sleep mode too early. It
    > went back to normal (better extrapolations of battery power
    > left) after a 2 or 3 cycles.

Cool.  I'll try that.  Thanks!

Marshal