On Mon, 05 Feb 2024 20:32:44 GMT, joe...@this.is.invalid wrote:
> Marco Moock <
mm+use...@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.