My HP G62-121EE laptop has libupower-glib1 and upower installed but it shows just "laptop battery (estimating)..." :-( But if I click the menu, the power statistics shows correct values for the Energy, charge, battery capacity, etc. Probably the developers could introduce a daemon which monitors the battery charge during discharge, compare the value with battery capacity, and compute the estimated time remaining from the 2nd minute, every minute :-) This would be a machine/driver independent code and also be intelligent enough to show correct statistics, even if the user changes his power-management schemes. An important note, though, is to have a timer ticking (restart the timer after *suspend*-resume/ *sleep-*resume/ power-on) for the daemon itself, instead of using system clock. This is necessary, else the computation would be wrong if a user resumes the session after a sleep or hibernate. Worse still, it would be inaccurate if the user has changed the battery after a hibernate!
On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 10:33 PM, Philip Guyton <phil.lx...@googlemail.com>wrote: > I have just come across this problem again with another machine (my > previous post #107 was concerning a Compaq Presario A900 (bios f.33) ) > > This time it is with an HP Pavilion dv8000. > again whilst on battery:- > cat /sys/class/power_supply/BAT1/current_now > 0 > so no drain info available so this time I installed Andy Eyre's > libupower-glib1 and upower from Brian Rogers hand ppa and the system now has > working estimates of discharge and charge. > > Thanks Andy and Brian. > > -- > Battery life estimation never comes around > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/629258 > You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber > of the bug. > -- --Sriram <sriramoman_at_gmail_dot_com> -- Battery life estimation never comes around https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/629258 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a subscriber of a duplicate bug (38795). -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
