Rob Smith: This is an old (and resolved) issue - generally speaking issues that have been fixed and haven't seen activity for years won't see helpful/friendly followups when you post to them...
> It has been explained that this is an Asus based problem Pretty much. Whoever wrote the BIOS in the EeePC 701/900 followed the non-rechargeable battery part of the ACPI spec even though the battery is rechargeable (https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15979#c4 ). This is bad in all sorts of ways... > Why can't Debian/Ubuntu see the battery correctly They can if you use a kernel with a workaround in it (2.6.35 -stable or later see https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15979#c50 ) - i.e. this issue will appear fixed to you in Ubuntu 10.10 and later. If you know how to compile your own kernels you can fix this on Ubuntu 10.04 (or earlier) by installing a 2.6.35 or later -stable kernel or backporting the patch but don't even attempt to do this if you don't know what you're doing! Since Ubuntu 10.04 is not supported on desktops anymore moving to a later Ubuntu (or another recent distro) is by far the best option. > but Xandros Linux (and Windows XP) can I believe Xandros's GUI battery program had been hardcoded to understand the faulty information and correct for it but it's been years since I last had Xandros around to boot it. For Windows XP I don't know how the battery is read internally - perhaps the way its ACPI battery reading was written happened to cope with this particular type of bad battery information (and if BIOS testing only happened against Windows then no one would know it was being done wrong until it was too late). -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/403303 Title: power manager reports 1% battery even though it is full on Asus Eee PC netbook Status in DeviceKit based power management D-Bus backend: Unknown Status in “devicekit-power” package in Ubuntu: Invalid Status in “linux” package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Bug description: Binary package hint: gnome-power-manager after logging in, I see a dialog box that says my battery may be broken and that it only has 1% charge, yet it's been plugged in for a long time, and the battery meter shows that it's full. Will post screenshot. The netbook I'm running this on is an Eee900, and this is on the A3 release of karmic UNR. ProblemType: Bug Architecture: i386 Date: Wed Jul 22 22:08:05 2009 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10 Package: gnome-power-manager 2.27.2-0ubuntu2 ProcEnviron: LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-3.19-generic SourcePackage: gnome-power-manager Tags: ubuntu-unr Uname: Linux 2.6.31-3-generic i686 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/devicekit-power/+bug/403303/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages Post to : kernel-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
