Re: Laptop fails to switch batteries

Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.hardware.thinkpad
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Tue, 04 Jul 2017, Joachim Breitner wrote:
> I have a T460s with two internal batteries, running Debian unstable
> (4.9.0-3-amd64). No special power management tools installed.
> 
> Initially, it was fine: The laptop would use battery 1 until almost
> empty, and then start using battery 0. But since a few weeks, it often
> happens that as battery 0 gets depleted, the laptop simply and without
> warning shuts down.
> 
> Is that a known problem, and does it have a known fix?

Never heard of it, but... does it work with just battery 1?  i.e. have
you tested that battery 1 is working by itself?

Are you using the tp_smapi ? if so, what does it say about the
batteries?

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  Henrique Holschuh
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