acer-wmi-battery
A linux kernel driver for the Acer WMI battery health control interface (by frederik-h)
iomemory-vsl4
Updated Fusion-io iomemory VSL4 Linux (version 4.3.7) driver for recent kernels. (by RemixVSL)
| acer-wmi-battery | iomemory-vsl4 | |
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| 5 | 2 | |
| 94 | 53 | |
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| 1.7 | 5.5 | |
| 2 months ago | about 1 month ago | |
| C | C | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 only | - |
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acer-wmi-battery
Posts with mentions or reviews of acer-wmi-battery.
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and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-01.
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Battery life of suspended Acer Aspire laptop
I believe that the BIOS controls battery charging. There's an option to limit battery charging to 80%. I didn't find it in the BIOS but you can permanently set it in either - Acer Care Center under Windows or - https://github.com/frederik-h/acer-wmi-battery under Linux
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How to stop charging at 80% on Acer laptop?
Compile and load and set option with acer-wmi-battery.It worked fine from Debian/Ubuntu live USB so I didn't bother installing kernel-devel package on Fedora Silverlue , trying toolbox, Fedora Live media etc
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Enable battery limit on Linux
After some time spent on google, I found a solution: acer-wmi-battery custom driver.
- Battery only charging to 80 % (set under Windows)—How to change under Fedora?
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Is there anyway to limit battery charge to around 80% to help protect battery strength in a laptop?
I think it may depend on the brand of your laptop. For Acer I found this https://github.com/frederik-h/acer-wmi-battery/ If you're using a System76 one or other brands you might look for it. Try googling wmi "laptop brand" battery health Linux, or something like that. That's how I found this one
iomemory-vsl4
Posts with mentions or reviews of iomemory-vsl4.
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[FS][US-CO] PowerEdge R740 w/ 2x Platinum CPUs - Dell Precision T5820 Workstation - 8/16GB DDR3 - 5.2TB FusionIO PX600 PCIe SSDs
Note depending on your setup these might not be plug and play - For Ubuntu I needed to compile my own drivers (https://github.com/RemixVSL/iomemory-vsl4); on Windows there are some OEM installers that worked for me (https://dell-support.sandisk.com/)
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[Guide] Install Fusion ioMemory on TrueNAS SCALE
This guide is using RemixVSL driver made by snuf on gethub.https://github.com/RemixVSL/iomemory-vsl4
What are some alternatives?
When comparing acer-wmi-battery and iomemory-vsl4 you can also consider the following projects:
osx_battery_charge_limit - Intel-only Macbook (OSX) limit maximum battery charge using SMC
iomemory-vsl - Updated Fusion-io iomemory VSL Linux (version 3.2.16) driver for recent kernels.
TLP - TLP - Optimize Linux Laptop Battery Life
rtw88-usb - rtw88 family usb driver for linux rtl8723du rtl8822bu rtl8821cu rtl8822cu
AQtion - Aquantia AQC multigigabit NIC linux driver (atlantic) - development preview
Huawei-WMI - Huawei WMI laptop extras linux driver
iomemory-vsl - Updated Fusion-io iomemory VSL Linux (version 3.2.16) driver for recent kernels. [Moved to: https://github.com/RemixVSL/iomemory-vsl]
iomemory-vsl4 - Updated Fusion-io iomemory VSL4 Linux (version 4.3.7) driver for recent kernels. [Moved to: https://github.com/RemixVSL/iomemory-vsl4]
minios - mini x86 Operating System <= 256KB
acer-wmi-battery vs osx_battery_charge_limit
iomemory-vsl4 vs iomemory-vsl
acer-wmi-battery vs TLP
iomemory-vsl4 vs rtw88-usb
acer-wmi-battery vs AQtion
iomemory-vsl4 vs Huawei-WMI
acer-wmi-battery vs iomemory-vsl
iomemory-vsl4 vs iomemory-vsl4
acer-wmi-battery vs minios
acer-wmi-battery vs iomemory-vsl