[Novalug] Power Critically Low, Not.

[gregory pryzby]

Move to openSUSE 10.1 as power management is MUCH better. 

:)

Look in your logs to see if there are any errors being reported about
APIC or ACPI and try to 'fix' them

On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 04:52:29PM -0500, Maxwell Spangler wrote:
> 
> Dear Lazyweb,
> 
> When I unplug the AC power on my HP laptop (Running Fedora 5), I get a message 
> saying something like "Warning, power is critically low, you have 4 minutes 
> remaining, battery power 98%".
> 
> Clicking on it again says 3 hours, 13 minutes, 98%.
> 
> Anyone have any idea on what I can do to investigate what is going on more..? 
> I'm wondering if there is some sort of ACPI tracking that "thinks" my 98% will 
> only last 4 minutes.. 
> 
> Just not sure where to start and when I start investigating things like this, 
> I end up being able to tell you all the complete history of batteries not just 
> the resolution to my problem..

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