On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 2:05 PM, Sam Varshavchik <mrsam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Somehow, since a few weeks ago, occasionally gnome power manager loses its > mind and starts telling me that my laptop battery's "last full charge" is > 946.0 watt-hours of juice. Which makes the battery percentage indicator > pretty much meaningless. > > I can usually set things back to normal by charging up the battery to its > true max capacity, 63 watt-hours, and rebooting. After the reboot, > gnome-power-manager gains back its sanity, and usually continues to behave > itself, for several cycle charges and reboots. But, invariably, after a few > days gnome-power-manager once again becomes convinced that my laptop's got a > nuclear-powered battery. > > It's beginning to get rather old, and annoying. It looks to me like somehow, > somewhere, gnome-power-manager saved an erroneous power reading, once upon a > time, and keeps going back to it. I tried looking in gconf, trying to > figured out where gnome-power-manager saves the last full charge reading, > but had no luck. Anyone knows? similar problem to me too. after wake-up from suspend/hibernate, gnome power manager shows 5% remaining, in fact there is still about 2 hours battery. hope some one offers a fix. > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines > -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
