Bug 104722

Summary:	Request to change default battery levels
Product:	[openSUSE] SUSE LINUX 10.0	Reporter:	Jiri Srain <jsrain>
Component:	Mobile Devices	Assignee:	Thomas Renninger <trenn>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None	CC:	dkukawka
Version:	Beta 1
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Description Jiri Srain 2005-08-15 16:09:12 UTC

I got following request from "Dirk O. Siebnich" <dok@dok-net.net> via mail: 
  
I would just like to ask you to think about changing the default value  
for Battery Capacity Feedback/Critical Capacity from 2.  
  
On my notebook computer, if I left it unattended on battery power, so it  
would completely drain the battery pack, I noticed that once on  
line-power again and turned on it wouldn't resume from disk, though the  
action was set to suspend to disk, which otherwise works extremely well.  
  
Today I tried setting the criticial capacity threshold to something  
larger, and found 5 the minimum value that works.  
  
Being in favor of working defaults, I hope you can agree to changing  
this value to at least 5 for the upcoming SUSE 10 release, if possible.  
It would probably make sense to increase the other capacity thresholds  
as well, since otherwise the user won't have much time between warnings  
to save their work etc.

Comment 1 Danny Al-Gaaf 2005-08-15 17:04:47 UTC

I don't see a reason to change the default settings for all by this special 
case. I can't remember that we ever had this problems befor and that we get a 
bugreport/request befor about this. If he has this problem with this special 
machine, he can change the default settings. For exactly such cases you can 
configure powersave ;-)

Question: was this a problem with 10.0 or with the 'old' 9.3? Did he checked if 
the remaining percentage was the same from powersace as if he calculate this 
from the infos in proc?

Comment 2 Thomas Renninger 2005-08-16 09:26:50 UTC

Yes, I think Danny is right.
He should buy a new battery or increase battery limit values for his own.

5 % could be 15 minutes of battery lifetime or more, I would be annoyed if the
machine shuts down even I could still work with it that much time.

->Invalid, sorry.