Same here on an Asus eeepc 701. At startup, it warns about a battery defect due to capacity at 1.9% Strangely, when I right click the gnome-power-manager icon in the bar, and select History, the details tab of battery shows: Percentage: 50% (this is correct) Capacity: 1.9% (What does that mean ??)
Here are some dumps of /proc/acpi/battery: ubu...@eeepc:~$ cat /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/info present: yes design capacity: 5200 mAh last full capacity: 100 mAh battery technology: rechargeable design voltage: 8400 mV design capacity warning: 20 mAh design capacity low: 10 mAh capacity granularity 1: 52 mAh capacity granularity 2: 52 mAh model number: 701 serial number: battery type: LION OEM info: ASUS ubu...@eeepc:~$ cat /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/state present: yes capacity state: ok charging state: discharging present rate: unknown remaining capacity: 60 mAh present voltage: 7462 mV -- Incorrect warning about eeepc battery https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/460631 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-power-manager in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs