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

[Christoph Höger]

Well, if my physics teacher was right then no application shows wrong
values. 6000mAh and 148000mV compute to 88.8Wh.
So either the battery gives wrong values via acpi or the kernel reads
them wrong (which is very unlikely because 6000mAh seem to be a too
normal value for a read error) 

Am Donnerstag, den 18.10.2007, 16:17 +0200 schrieb Valent Turkovic:
> Here is the info from 2 year oly HP Compaq nx9030:
> 
> # cat /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/info
> present:                 yes
> design capacity:         6000 mAh
> last full capacity:      2784 mAh
> battery technology:      rechargeable
> design voltage:          14800 mV
> design capacity warning: 250 mAh
> design capacity low:     150 mAh
> capacity granularity 1:  10 mAh
> capacity granularity 2:  25 mAh
> model number:            JM-6
> serial number:           4063
> battery type:            LION
> OEM info:                Hewlett-Packard
> 
> 
> and GPM says this:
> 
> Vendor: Hewlett-Packard
> Serial Number: 4063
> Model: JM-6
> Current charge: 34.6 Wh
> Design charge: 88 Wh
> 
> Who is showing wrong info?
> 
> On 10/18/07, seth vidal <skvidal at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> >
> > 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
> >
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