[Debian-eeepc-devel] Battery run time and charge

[Francois Bottin]

Michael Pobega wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 05:37:15PM +0000, zongo saiba wrote:
>> - What bothers me the most is that if I do not use my eeepc, I drain
>> out the battery in about 2 days. The eeepc being completely off of
>> course. Could anyone tell me what is going on and how could I fix that
>> problem ?
> 
> That's a hardware problem, having to do with the motherboard and the
> Celeron chip in the Eee. There's really no good fix for it, unless you
> are willing to void your warranty.

I see a new BIOS has been released in january for the 900 (version 
1004). I did not see any reference to it in the EeePC section of the 
wiki. It may solve some of our problems... I can not test it myself: a 
storm lightning just destroyed the power adapter last night :-(

	François.