2009/11/12 Christoph Höger <choeger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > Am Donnerstag, den 12.11.2009, 20:35 +1100 schrieb L: >> 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. > > Did you two have a look at /proc/acpi/battery? I doubt this is gnome-power-managers fault. > prior to suspend cat /proc/acpi/battery/C13B/state present: yes capacity state: ok charging state: discharging present rate: 1327 mA remaining capacity: 2904 mAh present voltage: 15442 mV After wake-up from suspend cat /proc/acpi/battery/C13B/state present: yes capacity state: ok charging state: charged present rate: 0 mA remaining capacity: 45072 mAh present voltage: 16626 mV > -- > 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
