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My TOSHIBA L655 S5144 Battery is not Detected on Ubuntu 12.10 [duplicate]
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Battery not detected
i used toshiba l655 S5144 and when i installed Ubuntu 12.10 gnome "no battery" present
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What should VM writeback timeout be set to for a laptop?
I am using powertop to check that my machine is setup in a way that will give me good battery life. After installing laptop-mode-tools all of the "Tunables" section shows "Good" except VM writeback ...
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What is an ACPI GPE storm?
Just experienced a system freeze (no touchpad, no keyboard, screen looked normal), Alt/SysRq/REISUB didn't work, had to press the start button.
In var/log/kern.log I find "ACPI: EC: GPE storm ...
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Kernel patch that solves battery issues when for ubuntu ? [closed]
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTAxNDM
When will this come for ubuntu ?
I am getting tired with my 11.10 dieing at little over 50 minutes of battery when at the most extreme ...
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What is a realistic date for the kernel power regressions fixes?
Linux kernel has cumulated multiple power management regression bugs which make systems affected barely usable. A system that works at 30/30 temperatures on Windows during office work may work on ...
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How can I tell if I'm affected by “The 11.10 Battery Power Drain”?
I've seen hints at some kernel power bug affecting battery life if updating to 11.10 -- as for example here.
I relation to this, I have three questions:
How can I tell if my machine is affected ...
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Laptop immediately suspends when going onto battery power
I've got an MSI Wind, model U100 that's been running Ubuntu without trouble for a long while. After upgrading to 10.04 a few months ago, I've had this strange problem. As soon as I unplug the laptop ...
