Eric Atkin wrote:
So I bought a new battery for my laptop and installed it. I booted into Linux
(gentoo) and kpowersave recognized the new battery and for the next few hours
showed it charging up. The guy at the battery store said I should charge it
fully and then discharge fully to calibrate, so, once full, i disconnected AC
power and continued to work. kpowersave recognize that power had been removed
and showed the battery discharging at a normal rate. After about 1 minute, my
laptop just shut off. No warnings or attempts to suspend or hibernate or
anything. Power was just cut off. I tested several times and always got the
same result. I assumed it was a bad battery, but then I had to boot into
windows for something and decided to try it there. In windows, I waited till
the charge was at 100% then disconnected AC and let it run. It ran for about
two hours as expected before dying. But if I boot back into linux, it dies
again after just a minute or two. I don't even know where to begin. Any
ideas? $170 battery that I can't take back because it does actually work, and
anyway, it seems to be a software issue.
Eric
First, you should tell us your kernel version and loaded battery module
(battery.ko or sbs.ko)
Second, please do a "grep . /proc/acpi/battery/*/*" with attached AC
and try to do this with it disconnected.
It might be a good idea to open a new bug report in bugzilla.kernel.org
for ACPI/battery and assign it to
astarikovskiy@xxxxxxx (me).
Regards,
Alex.
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