Public bug reported: For some reason, HAL will not report correct battery life on my laptop. It will report 100% until acpi reports ~76%, at which point HAL reports a total of 0% battery left. The output of hal-device | grep battery follows
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ hal-device | grep battery battery.charge_level.rate = 1 (0x1) (int) battery.charge_level.last_full = 1 (0x1) (int) battery.charge_level.current = 0 (0x0) (int) battery.voltage.current = 1 (0x1) (int) battery.reporting.rate = 1646 (0x66e) (int) battery.reporting.current = 743 (0x2e7) (int) battery.charge_level.capacity_state = 'ok' (string) battery.rechargeable.is_discharging = true (bool) battery.rechargeable.is_charging = false (bool) battery.is_rechargeable = true (bool) battery.charge_level.unit = 'mWh' (string) battery.charge_level.granularity_2 = 473 (0x1d9) (int) battery.charge_level.granularity_1 = 473 (0x1d9) (int) battery.charge_level.low = 740 (0x2e4) (int) battery.charge_level.warning = 2960 (0xb90) (int) battery.charge_level.design = 29600 (0x73a0) (int) battery.voltage.design = 14800 (0x39d0) (int) battery.voltage.unit = 'mV' (string) battery.reporting.granularity_2 = 32 (0x20) (int) battery.reporting.granularity_1 = 32 (0x20) (int) battery.reporting.low = 50 (0x32) (int) battery.reporting.warning = 200 (0xc8) (int) battery.reporting.design = 2000 (0x7d0) (int) battery.reporting.last_full = 1273 (0x4f9) (int) battery.reporting.unit = 'mAh' (string) battery.technology = 'LION' (string) battery.serial = '50638' (string) battery.model = '12ZL' (string) battery.vendor = 'SONY' (string) battery.present = true (bool) info.capabilities = { 'battery' } (string list) info.category = 'battery' (string) battery.type = 'primary' (string) linux.acpi_path = '/proc/acpi/battery/BAT1' (string) The output of acpi follows: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ acpi Battery 1: discharging, 56%, 00:24:16 remaining My processor is a socket 754 Mobile Sempron 3000+ (1.8 GHz), and I'm running Kubuntu Edgy ** Affects: hal (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: Unconfirmed -- battery support in hal broken on acer aspire 3003lci https://launchpad.net/bugs/68834 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs