has anyone tried TLP(or/and tp-smapi) in their Thinkpad W510(or xx10 era thinkpad in general)? can someone teach me how because I cannot get my head around kernal headers and stuff
#TLP on thinkpad - Problem with tp-smapi
hallow granite
summer flicker
Hi @hallow granite. I found the thread title somehow misleading... From what I could remember, setting up TLP should not get you that deep with the kernel itself.
Maybe tp-smapi but I haven't used that myself. As for that one... some nifty thing put together to deal with the proprietary BIOS related stuff from pre-Ivy Bridge units.
I don't think W510 is included in the list of compatible devices. As for xx10... I've only saw T410/s and T510 on the list, not quite sure if that's the one you had in mind.
hallow granite
TLP on thinkpad - Problem with tp-smapi
hallow granite
I don't think W510 is included in the list of compatible devices. As for xx10......
Well.. does that mean W510 can't use TLP then? trying to see battery status always give me something like "install tp-smapi"
summer flicker
What battery status? The percentage or something else?
hallow granite
What battery status? The percentage or something else?
Like, the overall info like battery life, percentage, etc to see if what is wrong with my battery, since while the default power manager in Linux Mint gives me “Waiting to charge” and refuses to use battery power when I unplug the AC
Otherwise the battery seems fine according to the power manager
summer flicker
I'm not sure what exactly are the implications of that for TLP, but I doubt it'd really help you much with it.
hallow granite
I am trying to use another program to see the battery info to see if the battery is ok or not
And if this is something related to Charge_Start_Threshold I am trying to change that through TLP as well
summer flicker
Is this issue like encountered from a fresh install? Or you had an install and this just happened recently?
hallow granite
Is this issue like encountered from a fresh install? Or you had an install and t...
It happened from the get go, right when I booted into live environment
I thought it might be something like driver issue so I installed the mint on the HDD, but it persisted after all the updates
snow igloo
do dmesg -l warn+ | grep ACPI
hallow granite
do `dmesg -l warn+ | grep ACPI`
i did and that didn't work.. turns out the battery was just being dead
replaced the thing and it works now