wrong battery status info on top panel.

[gurel kaynak]

I installed the latest Ubuntu (5.10) and did all the updates. But the battery
status is just rotating between the correct percentage after a few minutes says
that it's zero percent then again a few minutes later says that the laptop is
plugged and working with ac power. I have a Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo series laptop.

[Matt Zimmerman (mdz)]

Does this still happen with the latest kernel in Breezy? Do you get the same
results from running "acpi" in a terminal?

[gurel kaynak (gurel-kaynak)]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Does this still happen with the latest kernel in Breezy? Do you get the same
> results from running "acpi" in a terminal?

yes this is happening with the latest kernel in Breezy. But when I run acpi that
just works. It shows the correct status of the battery. Power of the terminal :)

[Matt Zimmerman (mdz)]

Perhaps a HAL issue, then...are the values in Device Manager reasonable?

[gurel kaynak (gurel-kaynak)]

(In reply to comment #3)
in Device Manager the numbers are the same as top panel. Wrong. Im talking about
Battery Bay section.
the battery.charge_level.current and battery.charge_level.rate become 0 (zero)
every few minutes. And then it becomes normal again.

[gurel kaynak (gurel-kaynak)]

(In reply to comment #4)
> (In reply to comment #3)
> in Device Manager the numbers are the same as top panel. Wrong. Im talking about
> Battery Bay section.
> the battery.charge_level.current and battery.charge_level.rate become 0 (zero)
> every few minutes. And then it becomes normal again.
>
>

sorry not battery.charge_level.rate it should be percentage, not rate. Sorry
about that.

[gurel kaynak (gurel-kaynak)]

I realized that when battery.charge_level.current becomes 0,
battery.charge_level.percentage just disappears, instead of becoming zero. Is
that normal?

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Ryan, any idea about this?

[Allison Karlitskaya (desrt)]

No. I have no idea :)

Reporter: I suspect that you happened to run the 'acpi' command at a moment that
the kernel was providing the correct values. Can you try running something like:

while true; do acpi; sleep 1; done

And run that for a while and see if it experiences the same effect as the
battery applet?

[gurel kaynak (gurel-kaynak)]

ok I did that. So acpi shows the correct value when the information at the top
panel is wrong. So it goes like this:
Battery 1: discharging, 91%, rate information unavailable.
Battery 1: discharging, 91%, rate information unavailable.
Battery 1: discharging, 91%, rate information unavailable.

But when the top panel changes the status to zero acpi does something like this:
Battery 1: discharging, 91%, rate information unavailable.
Battery 1: charging/discharging, 90%, rate information unavailable
Battery 1: charged, 90%, rate information unavailable.
Battery 1: discharging, 90%, rate information unavailable.

So when passing from 91% to 90% something goes wrong and the program at the top
panel shows wrong information for a while.

When I tested this the laptop was unplugged from the power source. :)

[Allison Karlitskaya (desrt)]

If the ACPI commandline tool is freaking out like that then it must be a
kernel/acpi/dsdt/hardware/bios/???? issue.

Hi Ben :)

[gurel kaynak (gurel-kaynak)]

well the problem seems gone for the moment with the latest updates of kernel and
acpi-support.
Thanks all...

[Ben Collins (ben-collins)]

Ok, feel free to reopen the bug if it doesn't remain gone.