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Old 04-22-2007, 09:17 AM   #1
scankyfrank
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Problem with laptop not running off mains.


I've just installed slackware 11.0 onto my laptop and it charges the battery and runs off the mains for about 10mins before it switches to the battery. The laptop charges find when its not running. I've had this same issue with desktopBSD. Does anyone know what causes this and how to fix it?


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Old 04-22-2007, 09:21 AM   #2
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I would first suspect power management utilies, that somethin isn't right with them. Maybe you want to check your power management configuration, or for example turn acpi off to see what it does?

Sounds weird though. I would suspect it's that the power management system isn't detecting the battery/non-battery state correctly or is not getting the correct information about something..you may check /proc/ for battery information too, to see if those seem correct.
 
  


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