acer-wmi-battery
A linux kernel driver for the Acer WMI battery health control interface (by frederik-h)
iomemory-vsl
Updated Fusion-io iomemory VSL Linux (version 3.2.16) driver for recent kernels. [Moved to: https://github.com/RemixVSL/iomemory-vsl] (by snuf)
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acer-wmi-battery
Posts with mentions or reviews of acer-wmi-battery.
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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-vsl
Posts with mentions or reviews of iomemory-vsl.
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- Need drivers for a Dell Fusion Io drive2 card.
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[FS] [US-PA] Dell PowerEdge R710 w/ Rails (GY8HS1)
# apt install git build-essential linux-headers-$(uname -r) # cd /usr/src # git clone https://github.com/snuf/iomemory-vsl # cd iomemory-vsl/ # git checkout v5.12.1 # make module # insmod root/usr/src/iomemory-vsl-3.2.16/iomemory-vsl.ko
What are some alternatives?
When comparing acer-wmi-battery and iomemory-vsl you can also consider the following projects:
osx_battery_charge_limit - Intel-only Macbook (OSX) limit maximum battery charge using SMC
simplefs - A simple native file system for Linux kernel
TLP - TLP - Optimize Linux Laptop Battery Life
AQtion - Aquantia AQC multigigabit NIC linux driver (atlantic) - development preview
iomemory-vsl4 - Updated Fusion-io iomemory VSL4 Linux (version 4.3.7) driver for recent kernels.
minios - mini x86 Operating System <= 256KB
iomemory-vsl - Updated Fusion-io iomemory VSL Linux (version 3.2.16) driver for recent kernels.