To ft...@tiscali.nl You mean for some reason power-manager sees 100% charge as 100mha (it's really 1,9% of 5200mha)? I've not noticed such an easy explanations. If you are right - this bug is simple and easy to be fixed.
About such a problem on other ubuntu builds - I've not experienced the bug on jaunty (using same eeepc 900) 2009/11/6, Ferry Toth <ft...@tiscali.nl>: > I believe the eeepc battery reports the last full capacity in % of the > design capacity. So 100mA should actutally 100% of 5200mAh > > The same problem occurs in intripid, jaunty and karmic. I was hoping it > to be solved by now, but alas. > > I have no idea where to fix this problem, but it is certainly annoying. > > Ferry > > -- > Incorrect warning about eeepc battery > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/460631 > You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber > of the bug. > > Status in “gnome-power-manager” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed > > Bug description: > Binary package hint: gnome-power-manager > > Description of the problem: > gnome-power-manager incorrectly pops up a warning about an unhealthy battery > in my EeePC 900. Further the battery statistics are somewhat bizarre as the > EeePC is quirky in how it reports this information back to the OS. > > Steps to reproduce: > Start Ubuntu 9.10 on an EeePC 900 with a fresh battery in it. > > Expected result: > No warnings to be shown. Battery information to be somewhat sensible. > > Actual result: > A "Your battery may be broken" message is shown. The capacity (always > reported as 1.9%) and charge values (always beween 0.0 and 0.8) are strange. > > Version information: > Ubuntu karmic > gnome-power-manager 2.28.1-0ubuntu1 > > Additional information: > The acpi output looks something like this: > 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: 900 > serial number: > battery type: LION > OEM info: ASUS > > I think I remember reading that you were only supposed to report do it this > way with non-rechargeable batteries but now the problem is here we are > pretty much stuck with it. This might also be > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=439460 . > -- 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
