[ubuntu-uk] Netbook Battery Problem

[DaveGK]

DaveGK wrote:
> Bruno Girin wrote:
>> On Thu, 2010-05-06 at 14:04 +0100, Jon Farmer wrote:
>>> On Thu, 2010-05-06 at 13:50 +0100, Bruno Girin wrote:
> <...>
>>>> To see if it's related, can you post the content
>>>> of /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/info please?
>>> Well it actually shows as /proc/acpi/battery/BAT1/info and contains
>>>
>>> present:                 yes
>>> design capacity:         2200 mAh
>>> last full capacity:      1964 mAh
>>> battery technology:      rechargeable
>>> design voltage:          11100 mV
>>> design capacity warning: 0 mAh
>>> design capacity low:     0 mAh
>>> capacity granularity 1:  1 mAh
>>> capacity granularity 2:  1 mAh
> <...>
>> OK so this shows that it's not the same problem as the EeePC because the
>> EeePC shows "last full capacity: 100 mAh" because its ACPI
>> implementation reports a percentage rather than an mAh value. And should
>> therefore be a new bug, as you just filed :-)
> 
> Apologies for barging in, how do I view the contents of this file?
> All I'm getting is "The file /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/info changed on 
> disk. Do you want to reload the file?"
> Whether I click Cancel or Yes, the file displayed is still empty.
> Reason for my interest is that I have three batteries for my laptop and 
> while one is handled perfectly - 20 & 5 minutes warnings, automatic 
> [proper] shutdown, two others do not report correctly (my guess) so 
> often I get laptop just going off, without warning, sometimes even 
> before the 20min warning.
> 
And typing view and full file name did the trick. D'oh! LOL :)
Still, any suggestion on how to 'house train' the two batteries that 
misbehave?
One of them is the original that came with the laptop, the other is 
identical to the 'good' one...

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Cheers,
Dave