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From: Oz Nahum Tiram <nahu...@gmail.com> To: Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk> Subject: Re: Bug#601345: linux-image-2.6.32: wrong battery charge level Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2010 19:08:59 +0200 I have compiled linux kernel 2.6.34, and I have installed all the linux-kernels with vesions 2.6.31. At the moment, I have 3 operating systems on this laptop. Debian Squeeze Ubuntu 10.10 Ubuntu 9.10 When I install the kernel package of Ubuntu 9.10 (2.6.31) in Ubuntu 10.10, this issue does not occur. I could not find a debian package of 2.6.31, but like I said, I tried all the others possible, and it did occur ... So I believe that this issue is kernel related. Oz On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 6:47 PM, Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk> wrote: > 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. > -- Oz Nahum Graduate Student Zentrum für Angewandte Geologie Universität Tübingen --- Imagine there's no countries it isn't hard to do Nothing to kill or die for And no religion too Imagine all the people Living life in peace -- 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/20101025174320.gj13...@decadent.org.uk
