410 v 430 low battery alarm

[T410]

I have a 410 running Mint 17.3 (yes I know its obsolete) that sounds an alarm when the battery hits 5%. I have no idea why, but it has always done so and I like it. I like it a lot.

I have a 430 running 19.x which does not sound an alarm no matter how low the battery gets. I do not like this one bit.

The power settings are the same. Googling this it almost sounds as if the 410 is the odd one. I see all sorts of magic terminal incantations should rightfully be done to make Mint make a sound, but it did so out of the box on my 410.

Why?

[skx]

I have a 410 running Mint 17.3 (yes I know its obsolete) that sounds an alarm when the battery hits 5%. I have no idea why, but it has always done so and I like it. I like it a lot.

I have a 430 running 19.x which does not sound an alarm no matter how low the battery gets. I do not like this one bit.

The power settings are the same. Googling this it almost sounds as if the 410 is the odd one. I see all sorts of magic terminal incantations should rightfully be done to make Mint make a sound, but it did so out of the box on my 410.

Why?

Honestly I never looked into this but I confirm all my machines running Debian do have the low battery alarm sound enabled. I think it is a combination of kernel/DE which is taking care of it. As you are running Mint, go looking for support on their forum/irc channel.

[T410]

My 430 doesn't even have an alarm option in setup

[Thinkpad4by3]

Check the BIOS...there are some battery options there.

[T410]

Check the BIOS...there are some battery options there.

I'm pretty sure BIOS is what I meant by setup utility.

[Jake.Werecat]

My 430 doesn't even have an alarm option in setup

Interesting, mine does...

[T410]

My 430 doesn't even have an alarm option in setup

Interesting, mine does...

wanna trade?

[Jake.Werecat]

Yea, sure, why not, after all who needs the battery alarm!
Which BIOS version on your T430 do you run?