On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 11:11:46PM +0100, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote:
tags 557527 moreinfo
thanks
On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 05:53:26PM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
On Sun, 2009-11-22 at 17:51 +0100, Lennert Van Alboom wrote:
> Package: linux-2.6
> Version: 2.6.31-2
> Severity: normal
>
> When the battery is being charged, its charge will rise steadily until it
> reaches 99%, after which its charge_now jumps to the value held by
> charge_full_design. This basically means that charge_now will hold a value
> larger than the one in charge_full, which confuses (for an example) gkrellm
> up to a point that it reports the battery to suddenly be at "130% full".
>
> I reported this as a bug in gkrellm initially (http://bugs.debian.org/551518)
> but it turned out rather quickly to be a sysfs thing.
>
> I noticed this oddity first in kernel 2.6.30-1-686, and upgraded to
> 2.6.31-1-686 following the gkrellm maintainer's advice. This didn't change
> the behaviour.
The kernel basically reports what the firmware (BIOS) tells it, so this
is probably a BIOS bug, but it might be reasonable to work around it.
Try reporting this upstream at <http://bugzilla.kernel.org> and let us
know the bug number so we can track it.
Did you report this at http://bugzilla.kernel.org ?
Cheers,
Moritz
I did not; I changed jobs soon after reporting this behaviour, and the
laptop came with the job. I have no way of providing any more feedback
unfortunately since the new job has a different type of laptop, which
doesn't show this weird bug.
Sorry :-)
Lennert
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