Charger ring colour does not fit apm indication

[Eddy Petrisor <eddy.petrisor@gmail.com>]

Hello,

I have a powerbook g4 with Debian installed on it and Mac OS X.

The kernel used by me is 2.6.9 with benh's sleep patch.


I have some concerns regarding charging and the battery:
1) When inserting the charger into the laptop and the battery is 
partially charged, then the light ring on the charger plug is orange. I 
know this is normal, but sometimes while the power applet indicates that 
the battery is not charged, the ring lits green.

2) I am also woried about the best practice regarding the charging as I 
use the laptop as my main workstation. When I put the laptop to sleep 
the ring also switches to green which makes me think that I am 
overchaging the battery, thus killing it slowly. Do I need to worry 
about this thing?

3) Sometimes, after a long time having the chager plugger the charging 
is stopped (the ring turns off) and is not restored until I pull the 
charger out of the power socket and reinsert it in. I suspect some 
problems in the power adapter (laptop was originally built for Ireland 
while I live in Romania so I use a power plug addapter), but I am afraid 
the laptop commands at some point "stop recharging". Is the chager this 
smart? Should I worry or should I just serch for a replace for the power 
addapter?



In any case, If is a kernel problem, which version should I use?


thanks

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Regards,
EddyP
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