Kok, Auke wrote: > Nathan Coulson wrote: >> On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 8:33 AM, Paul Menzel >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Dear Michael, >>> (I am also answering to the list.) >>> >>> >>> thank you for your answer. >>> >>> Am Sonntag, den 23.11.2008, 16:23 +0100 schrieb Michael Gaber: >>> >>>> Paul Menzel schrieb: >>>>> [snip] >>>>> 1. Hmm, I do not know why the output no ACPI power usage estimate >>>>> available. It was shown before dumping. It was between 0,1 and 0,4 >>>>> Watts. Running PowerTOP it is also not shown. Strange … >>>> perhaps because you're testing it while being plugged in? >>>> acpi power estimate is only available when running on battery >>> No. The cable was not plugged in. And as I said, before the dump it was >>> shown. >> >> I have never seen any power estimates in powertop the whole time I >> have experimented with it, and I have never heard of anyone else >> getting estimates before either. I just assumed it was not possible. > > This feature works based on the battery charge level and the code has been > working on my laptop since the beginning. Recently we found out that some > batteries (drivers?) report their charge levels differently which broke the > ability for powertop to calculate estimates, and I have gotten one patch for > that to fix this for PPC systems.
I sent a patch[1] against 1.10 to fix this reading for batteries that don't report watt levels but do report amperage levels (apparently I attached a diff of the diff too...). [1] http://www.mail-archive.com/power%40bughost.org/msg01230.html -- Felipe Sateler _______________________________________________ Power mailing list [email protected] http://www.bughost.org/mailman/listinfo/power
