gnome-power-manager detects Lenovo T410 Energy when Full incorrectly

[Peter Bolgar]

Binary package hint: gnome-power-manager

I have a Lenovo T410 laptop running 64-bit Maverick Meerkat.
My gnome-power-manager package version is 2.32.0-0ubuntu1

The battery state displays incorrectly when the computer is not plugged in - with a fresh charge the battery state on a new battery, you would want the battery state indicator to happily display that the battery is fully charged. Instead it comes up as 10% and the indicator is red. It does however give you the correct number of hours.

I looked into the stats and the problem is that gnome-power-manager incorrectly thinks my battery's energy when full is 518.1 Wh when really it is only 51.81. All the other stats are correctly recognized - such as energy (design), energy, energy when empty.

It is a bug in this package because GKrellM System Monitor handles this correctly and also Windows does when I boot into it on the rear occasion.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: gnome-power-manager 2.32.0-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-28.49-generic 2.6.35.11
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-28-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat Mar 19 14:41:45 2011
GnomeSessionIdleInhibited: No
GnomeSessionInhibitors: None
GnomeSessionSuspendInhibited: No
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64 (20101007)
MachineType: LENOVO 2516A11
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-2.6.35-28-generic root=/dev/mapper/pb--UB-pb--UB2 ro splash vga=786 quiet splash
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_GB.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-power-manager
dmi.bios.date: 10/25/2010
dmi.bios.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.bios.version: 6IET74WW (1.34 )
dmi.board.name: 2516A11
dmi.board.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.board.version: Not Available
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: No Asset Information
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.chassis.version: Not Available
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnLENOVO:bvr6IET74WW(1.34):bd10/25/2010:svnLENOVO:pn2516A11:pvrThinkPadT410:rvnLENOVO:rn2516A11:rvrNotAvailable:cvnLENOVO:ct10:cvrNotAvailable:
dmi.product.name: 2516A11
dmi.product.version: ThinkPad T410
dmi.sys.vendor: LENOVO