Please attach acpidump and dmesg output after 'cat /proc/acpi/battery files'. -----Original Message----- From: linux-acpi-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:linux-acpi-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jacob Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2006 4:26 PM To: linux-acpi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Battery sticks at 0% - ACPI's fault or not? I've made a bug report about this to gnome-power-manager applet, but I wonder if it's really ACPI's fault. I decided to check right at the source of most excellent support - the mailing lists. :) So, here's the deal. I've got this Compaq Presario 1720US, with a battery that didn't appear to work until recently. (It could've been a self-made illusion all along.) Now, however, even when the battery still has 45 minutes of life left, Gnome's applet reports 0%. The applet does appear to be accessing ACPI, because it is telling me everything else about the battery but that. So, here's what ACPI tells me when I ask it: jacob@jacob-laptop:~$ cat /proc/acpi/battery/CMB0/state present: yes capacity state: ok charging state: charged present rate: 0 mW remaining capacity: 2700 mWh present voltage: 16614 mV jacob@jacob-laptop:~$ cat /proc/acpi/battery/CMB0/info present: yes design capacity: unknown last full capacity: unknown battery technology: rechargeable design voltage: unknown design capacity warning: 800 mWh design capacity low: 16 mWh capacity granularity 1: 100 mWh capacity granularity 2: 100 mWh model number: BAT1 serial number: 0000 battery type: LION OEM info: COMPAQ When I unplug the AC, it tells me this: jacob@jacob-laptop:~$ cat /proc/acpi/battery/CMB0/info present: yes design capacity: unknown last full capacity: unknown battery technology: rechargeable design voltage: unknown design capacity warning: 800 mWh design capacity low: 16 mWh capacity granularity 1: 100 mWh capacity granularity 2: 100 mWh model number: BAT1 serial number: 0000 battery type: LION OEM info: COMPAQ jacob@jacob-laptop:~$ cat /proc/acpi/battery/CMB0/state present: yes capacity state: ok charging state: discharging present rate: 1153 mW remaining capacity: 2620 mWh present voltage: 15708 mV ACPI does do some strange things, like the remaining capacity drops to 0 mWh when it gets to be around a mere 10 minutes left in battery power, causing Gnome to freak out. So the bottom question is: who's fault is it, and how would I fix this? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
