search for: baterry

Hi, I bought an iRiver HP-120 which can read ogg files (via a hard drive). Many people experiment that reading ogg file decrease the baterry charge more quickly than with mp3 at the same bitrate. The only raisonnable reason of that mysterious thing is that reading ogg file is not sequential onto hard drive, and the hard drive head must move more than for reading an mp3 at the same quality, and that consume more energy. Right ? PS :...

...on the second restart it will mostly work ok. When it fails to start it outputs this to syslog: Jul 2 22:58:53 alcor upsd[5353]: Can't connect to UPS [powerman] (megatec-powerman): No such file or directory 2) When it starts properly it works nice, e.g. output UPS parameters, deteact low baterry etc. besides the fact that it floods syslog with the following message each polling cycle of the driver Jul 3 23:07:16 alcor megatec[7070]: Communications with UPS re-established Jul 3 23:07:24 alcor megatec[7070]: Communications with UPS lost: No status from UPS. Jul 3 23:07:31 alcor megatec[7...