Re: what to do when gnome power manager shows wrong battery capacity?

[seth vidal <skvidal fedoraproject org>]

On Thu, 2007-10-18 at 15:35 +0200, Valent Turkovic wrote:
> Sorry for long subject, but what to do when gnome power manager shows
> wrong battery capacity?
> 
> I have two laptops for who I see that battery capacity is stated as
> 88.8Wh but it is not! So when gnome starts I get an error message
> saying I have a faulty battery. What do I need to do? Submit a bug? To
> what component? Send an email? To whom?
> 
> Thank you,
> Valent.
> 

how old are the batteries?

If they're more than say, a year old, it's probably true. battery charge
life declines. Get the info on your battery by clicking on the
gnome-power-manager icon and you can find out the info on your battery.

-sv