Bugzilla – Bug 104722
Request to change default battery levels
Last modified: 2005-08-16 09:26:50 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.
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?
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.