draining battery with tpctl

From: Bruce Lewis (brlspam_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 08/12/05

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    I got a new battery for my Thinkpad 600E. At first it charged to 99%,
    then 58%, now just to 22%. Following advice I see on web pages about
    "battery memory" I keep trying and failing to drain the battery because
    it automatically suspends at 1%.

    I'm running debian testing with thinkpad and tpctl packages installed.
    There is no windows partition.

    As root, I tried to disable the automatic suspend:

    tpctl --psb=-
    tpctl --pse=-

    It didn't work. Where do I go from here?

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