[ubuntu-uk] Netbook Battery Problem

[Bruno Girin]

On Thu, 2010-05-06 at 13:28 +0100, Jon Farmer wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-05-06 at 13:10 +0100, Bruno Girin wrote:
> 
> > Could it be related to bug #403303 [1]?
> > 
> > [1]
> > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/devicekit-power/+bug/403303
> 
> 
> It's a similar thing. However this is when I pull the power cord out of
> a netbook such as when I take it from my desk to move to the other side
> of the office for 5 mins. As soon as you unplug it the power manager
> reports low battery and hibernates. As soon as you press the power
> button after hibernation the power manager reports 100%.
> 
> So right now I have 2 hours 5 mins, if I put the power cord in for 5
> secs and then pull it out then low power kicks in.

According to the bug above, it depends how different processes check
battery state in the case where the battery doesn't follow ACPI specs
(as in the EeePC).

To see if it's related, can you post the content
of /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/info please?

Bruno