From: Christian Jaeger on
2010/7/30 Mark <mamarcac(a)gmail.com>:
> Thank you Christian.  Correct, Li-ion is the discussion here.  So is there a
> way to keep the battery in the laptop, without it charging to 100%?  Both
> machines in this case are Dell's, one Inspiron and one XPS, both 5+ years
> old.

Yes, see the Tp_smapi link posted above (although I still haven't used
it myself, because of lazyness and because a fully charged battery can
be useful too :).

Ch.


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From: Mark on
On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 6:10 PM, Christian Jaeger <chrjae(a)gmail.com> wrote:

> 2010/7/30 Mark <mamarcac(a)gmail.com>:
> > Thank you Christian. Correct, Li-ion is the discussion here. So is
> there a
> > way to keep the battery in the laptop, without it charging to 100%? Both
> > machines in this case are Dell's, one Inspiron and one XPS, both 5+ years
> > old.
>
> Yes, see the Tp_smapi link posted above (although I still haven't used
> it myself, because of lazyness and because a fully charged battery can
> be useful too :).
>

Unless I'm reading the ThinkWiki wrong Tp_smapi is not compatible with my
machines...
From: Lawrence Cadden on
On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 9:10 PM, Christian Jaeger <chrjae(a)gmail.com> wrote:

> 2010/7/30 Mark <mamarcac(a)gmail.com>:
> > Thank you Christian. Correct, Li-ion is the discussion here. So is
> there a
> > way to keep the battery in the laptop, without it charging to 100%? Both
> > machines in this case are Dell's, one Inspiron and one XPS, both 5+ years
> > old.
>
> Yes, see the Tp_smapi link posted above (although I still haven't used
> it myself, because of lazyness and because a fully charged battery can
> be useful too :).
>
> Ch.
>
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Like when you unplug :)
O hi, been lurking for a while now.
New to linux, Debian Squeeze on the desktop, Jolicloud on the netbook.

Larry
From: Christian Jaeger on
2010/7/30 Mark <mamarcac(a)gmail.com>:
> Unless I'm reading the ThinkWiki wrong Tp_smapi is not compatible with my
> machines...

Then I don't know, you'll have to find out about alternatives yourself
or hope someone else points them out, if they exist (I also guess not
all hardware allows to do that).

Ch.


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