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Re: [T400 (UNIX/GNU/Linux)] set battery charge thresholds?

From David Chmelik <dchmelik@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.sys.laptops.thinkpad, ibm.ibmpc.thinkpad
Subject Re: [T400 (UNIX/GNU/Linux)] set battery charge thresholds?
Date 2024-02-06 06:13 +0000
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On Mon, 05 Feb 2024 20:32:44 GMT, joecool@this.is.invalid wrote:
> Marco Moock <mm+usenet-es@dorfdsl.de> wrote:
>> Am 22.01.2024 um 06:27:20 Uhr schrieb David Chmelik:
>>> On Sun, 7 Jan 2024 12:14:38 +0100, Marco Moock wrote:
>>>> Am 07.01.2024 um 05:57:47 Uhr schrieb David Chmelik:
>>>>> TLP setting battery charging thresholds no longer works on my
>>>>> Slackware GNU/Linux ThinkPad T400 laptop (says like can't get
>>>>> thresholds) though apparently similar (battery_ctl.sh) may work on
>>>>> FreeBSD UNIX.  I tried this on two batteries (though I've had them
>>>>> several years)... should I get a new battery or is this evidence of
>>>>> other hardware breakage?
>>>> 
>>>> I assume a software problem.
>>>> Can you provide more information which software do you use to get
>>>> those tresholds?
>>> 
>>> TLP
>> 
>> I think you should ask in the alt.os.linux.slackware group for that
>> specific to slackware. [...]
>> 
> Uh for T400 I think that's old enough to still use tp_smapi kernel
> module to control charge thresholds. You can use a utility to adjust
> thresholds or adjust directly using the sysfs interface. Pretty much all
> the info you'd need to work with it can be found here:
> https://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Tp_smapi [...]

It's on SlackBuilds.org but Slackware 15 newly-compiled tp_smapi v0.44 
doesn't load.  Used to work when on Slackware 14.2 tp_smapi v0.43.  This 
is probably a kernel/hardware problem I'll ask tp_smapi computer 
programmers / software developers about.

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[T400 (UNIX/GNU/Linux)] set battery charge thresholds? David Chmelik <dchmelik@gmail.com> - 2024-01-07 05:57 +0000
  Re: [T400 (UNIX/GNU/Linux)] set battery charge thresholds? Marco Moock <mm+usenet-es@dorfdsl.de> - 2024-01-07 12:14 +0100
    Re: [T400 (UNIX/GNU/Linux)] set battery charge thresholds? David Chmelik <dchmelik@gmail.com> - 2024-01-22 06:27 +0000
      Re: [T400 (UNIX/GNU/Linux)] set battery charge thresholds? Marco Moock <mm+usenet-es@dorfdsl.de> - 2024-01-22 09:03 +0100
        Re: [T400 (UNIX/GNU/Linux)] set battery charge thresholds? joecool@this.is.invalid <Joe> - 2024-02-05 20:32 +0000
          Re: [T400 (UNIX/GNU/Linux)] set battery charge thresholds? David Chmelik <dchmelik@gmail.com> - 2024-02-06 04:57 +0000
            Re: [T400 (UNIX/GNU/Linux)] set battery charge thresholds? joecool@this.is.invalid <Joe> - 2024-02-06 05:39 +0000
          Re: [T400 (UNIX/GNU/Linux)] set battery charge thresholds? David Chmelik <dchmelik@gmail.com> - 2024-02-06 06:13 +0000
        Re: [T400 (UNIX/GNU/Linux)] set battery charge thresholds? David Chmelik <dchmelik@gmail.com> - 2024-02-06 04:51 +0000
          Re: [T400 (UNIX/GNU/Linux)] set battery charge thresholds? Marco Moock <mm+usenet-es@dorfdsl.de> - 2024-02-06 08:49 +0100

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