On Mon, 2010-10-25 at 13:47 +0200, Oz Nahum Tiram wrote: > Package: linux-2.6 > Version: 2.6.32-26 > File: linux-image-2.6.32 > Severity: important > > *** Please type your report below this line *** > > Hi, > I have a laptop which came installed with Ubuntu 9.10. I decided to > install Debian on it. I have found that on kernels >2.6.31 the power > manager indicated the wrong charge level. Even though the battery is > FULLY charged, the battery indicator says it has only ~20%. > If I installed older kernels from snapshot.debian.org I didn't have > that problem (However font smoothing with older kernel is > horrible...). > > I have seen similar bug reports in Ubuntu, but I wish this bug is > handled also in Debian. > > My laptop battery info is: > Vendor: CZCTech > Model: U13 > Serial Number: SN0000 > info from lshw: > description: Notebook > product: czc > vendor: BRUNEN IT Group > version: 1.0 > > *-battery > description: Nickel Cadmium Battery > product: Nikon Ultra Plus > vendor: Nikon Battery > physical id: 1 > version: 08/11/97 > serial: NI00123 > slot: Left side of System
This information reported by lshw comes from the BIOS and the battery, and it is complete nonsense! I expect that the BIOS is providing similarly bogus information about the charge state. But I don't know why the ACPI battery driver would have changed the way it interprets this. > See thread here for example: > http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1543467&page=2 This could be a similar problem, though no-one seems to specifically say that this bug was introduced between Ubuntu 9.10 and 10.04 (i.e. between Linux 2.6.31 and 2.6.32). > and > https://bugs.launchpad.net/linux/+bug/218094 [...] That bug report is specifically about the msi-laptop driver, and was made in 2008. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20101025164731.gh13...@decadent.org.uk
