Weird Battery Charge Indicator Issue

[Matthew Garrett]

On Sat, 2004-12-25 at 16:04 +0000, Lalit Dhiri wrote:

> I don't think the battery needs to be calibrated but there's something
> wrong with the way ubuntu does things. It shows full charge in Windows
> XP Pro and Xandros 2.5/3.0 so this problems is rather bizzare....

Xandros is likely to be using apm rather than acpi. Take a look at
the /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/info and state files and compare "remaining
capacity" to "last full capacity". If the two are different, then that's
what your battery is reporting.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org