On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 11:39 PM, The Rasterman Carsten Haitzler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 21 Feb 2008 12:27:23 -0600 "Paul Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > babbled: > > it could be old e config and the battery module is polling really fast: > > 1. rm -rf ~/.e > 2. start e and see. >
> note - NOTHING has changed with e17'sw battery polling for acpi beyond > polling > frequency above to reduce wakeups. > > > > In this Dell D820 laptop, I have 2 batteries. One is the usual, one > > is in the so-called "external bay" and it can be swapped for a CDROM. > > I should have realized E was having trouble with this because the > > battery monitor reported nutty values like 143% and it constantly told > > me my battery was almost out of power. Removing the battery module > > solves the CPU problem. What a relief. > > the 143% is likely due to acpi simply being broken in what it reports. go > to /proc/acpi/battery/.... and check the contents of files for yourself. > > The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler) [EMAIL PROTECTED] > I think you might be mistaken here. Something is messed up because of the 2 batteries. The gnome-power-manager is running in the gnome panel and reports 98% overall power and about 5 hours left. That is correct, in my experience. I started the kde3 panel and in there, at the same time. I click to open it and see it spots 2 batteries, one at 100% and one at 89%, however if I hover the mouse without clicking, it reports only on the smaller battery that is actually powering the system. It says 96% with 1:20 minutes remaining. 96% may be just a weird average of the ACPI values, I don't know how they calculate it. The E battery monitor says, at the same time 104% and 1:27 remaining. That's just not right. I have been checking /proc/acpi and I think gnome-power is correct, E battery is not: $ cat /proc/acpi/battery/BAT*/* alarm: 780 mAh present: yes design capacity: 7800 mAh last full capacity: 6959 mAh battery technology: rechargeable design voltage: 11100 mV design capacity warning: 780 mAh design capacity low: 236 mAh capacity granularity 1: 78 mAh capacity granularity 2: 78 mAh model number: DELL YD6236 serial number: 1977 battery type: LION OEM info: SMP present: yes capacity state: ok charging state: charged present rate: 1 mA remaining capacity: 7800 mAh present voltage: 12959 mV alarm: 420 mAh present: yes design capacity: 4200 mAh last full capacity: 3137 mAh battery technology: rechargeable design voltage: 11100 mV design capacity warning: 420 mAh design capacity low: 127 mAh capacity granularity 1: 42 mAh capacity granularity 2: 42 mAh model number: DELL 0000M7 serial number: 641 battery type: LiP OEM info: Sony present: yes capacity state: ok charging state: discharging present rate: 1921 mA remaining capacity: 2812 mAh present voltage: 11278 mV -- Paul E. Johnson Professor, Political Science 1541 Lilac Lane, Room 504 University of Kansas ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ enlightenment-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users
