Am Mittwoch, den 26.11.2008, 11:40 -0800 schrieb Kok, Auke: > Paul Menzel wrote: > > Am Mittwoch, den 26.11.2008, 16:10 -0300 schrieb Felipe Sateler: > >> Paul Menzel wrote: > >> > >>> Am Mittwoch, den 26.11.2008, 12:41 -0300 schrieb Felipe Sateler: > >>>> Paul Menzel wrote: > >>>> > >>>>> Am Montag, den 24.11.2008, 13:32 -0800 schrieb Kok, Auke: > >>>>>> Paul Menzel wrote: > >>>>>>> Am Montag, den 24.11.2008, 12:52 -0800 schrieb Kok, Auke: > >>>>>>>> Does that battery actually work reasonably long or is it dead? > >>>>>>> Well I worked with it, i. e., power cable was *not* plugged in, for > >>>>>>> about 2 hours today. So I think it is not dead. > >>>>>> ok, can you charge it to full, unplug and redo the proc output? I'd > >>>>>> like > >>>>>> to see 'remaining capacity' show a meaningful number... > >>>>> Sorry for the delay. Here you go. > >>>> <snip> > >>>> > >>>> What does the /sys/class/power_device/BAT0/* files have to say? AIUI, > >>>> more > >>>> attention is paid to the /sys interface than the /proc one. If the output > >>>> in /sys is sane, maybe it would be better to drop reading from /proc (or > >>>> use > >>>> first /sys, and fallback to /proc). > >>> Looks the same. > >>> > >>> $ cat /sys/class/power_supply/BAT0/charge_full > >>> 100000 > >>> $ cat /sys/class/power_supply/BAT0/charge_full_design > >>> 5200000 > >>> $ cat /sys/class/power_supply/BAT0/charge_now > >>> 100000 > >>> > >>> I hope this is enough. Otherwise I would be greatful for a hint to read > >>> out all the values with one command. > >> There's probably something wrong in your kernel, then. You might want to > >> report > >> a bug. Either that or your battery is broken. > > > > Well, others seem to have the same problem [1]. > > nod, and like I stated earlier, there's not much that we can fix in powertop > as > the kernel is blatantly providing us with false information. > > so either this needs to be escalated to the kernel (ACPI? battery module?) or > ends > up being a BIOS issue, which is highly likely.
I think that is what they say in [1]. But they say because it is unlikely that the firmware gets fixed, that the programs have to be adapted that they can cope with this situation. Thanks, Paul
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