Comment 37 for bug 120258

I haven't found a fix. Closest thing would be a few perl scripts that I
came across and have tried running/modifying. But they aren't a fix, at
least I wouldn't consider them one.

On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 6:03 AM, llawwehttam <email address hidden> wrote:

> I have just installed 9.10 karmic and have the bug too. Anyone found a
> fix yet?
>
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> Laptop Battery Time Remaining Outrageously Inaccurate
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/120258
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> Status in “gnome-power-manager” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed
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> Bug description:
> Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn
>
> Hardware is HP Pavilion DV1000 series (specific DV1588EA)
>
> Battery monitor when running on battery reports percentage of battery
> remaining correctly, but the corresponding remaining time is often
> fabulously wrong (and can swing between e.g a few minutes to tens of hours
> in the blink of an eye). /* What I wouldn't give for batteries that can last
> 14 hours between charges... */
>
> It looks for all the world like the underlying values are being held in
> storage classes which are too small or where value-wrapping is not being
> handled quite right...
>
> BTW UBUNTU is fantastic; I'm a convert! Keep up the good work!
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