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Laptop Battery Calibration???

 
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r.mariotti
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PostPosted: Wed May 26, 2004 3:33 pm    Post subject: Laptop Battery Calibration??? Reply with quote
Question I'm using Xandros Bus 2.0 on my laptop and every time I power on/boot into Xandros, I immediately receive the error that my battery is exhausted.

I simply click on OK or Cancel and continue on. The battery indicator seems to work well on the task bar and decrments as time goes on until it becomes X'ed over and then the laptop warning comes again. This time I plug into AC current.

My question is: Where does one find and how does one perform the battery calibration???

TIA
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bluea3
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Joined: 25 May 2004
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PostPosted: Thu May 27, 2004 1:52 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
i´ve got the same prob! even if i don´t use any battery inside (only over AC) i get this failure!

till now i didn´t find any solution

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bluea3
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PostPosted: Thu May 27, 2004 7:13 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
i was googeling a bit and found out that klaptop was originally cencepted for apm and not for acpi!

maybe you should try akpi
click http://akpi.scmd.at/download.php here!

that´s what im going to do tonite

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Chrisw
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PostPosted: Thu May 27, 2004 9:34 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Idealy the tray icon will get the time from the BIOS through either APM or ACPI, and your laptop maker should have a boot disk tool, or a BIOS option, to train the battery. You can't train reliably in Linux or Windows because power usage is too invariable. A proper training requires a special utility that's basicaly it's own OS.
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