Comment 67 for bug 629258
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| Balaji (balaji-ramasubramanian) wrote | #67 |
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I have an HP DV6298US laptop. The laptop battery life estimation is completely broken. It say it has only 18% life and dies down in less than 20 minutes. Under Windows the same works for more than 1 and a half hour. Battery charging, discharging, current every single statistic is plain WRONG! It is impossible that charge remains at 100% for 10 minutes even when I pull out the power chord! In the new kernel 2.6.35-22 this is even more broken. The moment I plug out the charger, the charge level drops to 58%. Until then it is at 100%.
Ask me for ANY settings you want. I think developing Ubuntu to work with laptops has always been a challenge for developers. I have had issues with it since the days of Feisty Fawn. It will be ages before this is fixed.
The first thing is that on Ubuntu's website itself we cannot afford to have versions of Ubuntu only for Desktops, Servers and Netbooks alone. We need separate focus on Notebooks/Laptops. The Desktop features DO NOT work on Laptops. It is high time the Ubuntu team realizes that Laptops have special needs.