I have the same problem on HP dv6-1308ew. I think the main reason of this problem is something more low-level than OS - hardware or BIOS, because it is also broken on Windows.
On my previous laptop (Acer), I got time estimation working well on both Linux and Windows. When I switched to HP, it doesn't work on neither. Both Windows and Ubuntu showed percent left only (9.10 at the time I switched, and later versions). Also interesting fact is, that on Acer I had working electric current meter (/sys/class/power_supply/BAT0/current_now), but on HP there is always -1000. I'm not sure if it is duty of BIOS to report the remaining battery time, but if it is, I suppose this bios doesn't support it. The bios is InsydeH20 EFI or something like that. On Acer I had Phoenix. -- Battery life estimation never comes around https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/629258 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Registry Administrators, which is the registrant for gnome-power. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~registry Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~registry More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
