Oh, and you probably did lose current_now because of 2.6.36. It comes directly from the kernel, so not many other components have a chance to make it go away. Battery hardware varies, so it's easy to have a battery bug only affect specific laptops. I'd recommend testing a mainline 2.6.35 kernel (to see if it's an Ubuntu patch that provides current_now), then bisecting to find the commit that made it go away. If/when you do find a bad commit, you should file a new bug.
My own battery has never reported current_now. Some batteries just don't report that data in a way that linux knows how to get it, and probably some aren't even capable of reporting that data. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/629258 Title: Battery life estimation never comes around -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs