Re: Battery life on an iBook rev 2.2
According to Adam Israel, on Sun, 09 May 2004 18:55:53 -0500,
>I've got Debian sid installed on my iBook (G3, 800Mhz).
>
>Maybe I'm misunderstanding how power management works on the PowerPC,
>or maybe something is misconfigured. It seems that the battery only
>lasts for about 2 hours. I'll watch the battery drain to around 85%,
>and then it drops to 0%.
I don't understand what is occuring. Mine goes for about 3h30-4h00, with
low backlight. Maybe your battery is badly calibrated
Note also that USB devices consume a lot of energy, even when sleeping :
my ibook can't pass the night sleeping with an usb mouse, and stand 3 or
4 days without.
>
>I've tried using pmud and apmd, and both had the same behavior (though
>pmud actually suspends-on-close whereas apmd didn't).
You should not use apmd. The ibook chip is pmu.
>
>/proc/pmu/battery_0 looks like on full charge:
>flags : 00000011
>charge : 21768
>max_charge : 21886
>current : -1174
>voltage : 11674
>time rem. : 66750
This is odd also : mine looks like :
flags : 00000011
charge : 4125
max_charge : 4147
current : -1163
voltage : 11947
time rem. : 12768
>
>I've tried 2.4.x and 2.6.5.
>
>I do have cpu step-down working, so the speed drops to 400Mhz on
>battery.
>
>I'm not sure what to check next. Any ideas are appreciated.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Adam Israel
>adam@battleaxe.net
>
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