Re: first shoot for smartbattery

Johannes Kuhlmann
2005-01-04T14:45:18Z

Hi,

I'm trying this out on an Acer Travelmate 4001LCi. With the version of
today, I get nice results for the battery, though I experienced the
same you did. But as fas as I could see this behaviour only takes
place, if I run smartbattery repeatedly with a very short delay. If I
only run it from time to time, it seems to be decreasing normally.
What I also experienced is, that it takes some time (not too long)
when plugging in the AC adapter until smartbattery shows the time to
be full (and some other information). Immediately I can see three
values, but not all that are normally shown. Sorry, I can't remember
which and I'm currently at another machine.

Regards,
Johannes

On Tue, 04 Jan 2005 15:33:16 +0100, François Valenduc
<fvalenduc-IWqWACnzNjyZIoH1IeqzKA@public.gmane.org> wrote:
> I am afraid it's not ok yet. In fact I get a very strange result: when
> the AC adapter is unplugged and knowing my battery is fully loaded, if I
> run repeatedly the command smartbattery 0, the "time to empty value" is
> sometime increasing, sometime decreasing. I can understand that it
> decreases but it's strange that it can also increase ! Last
> precision: I did this test with the latest available release (after
> having replaced the smartbattery.c file by a new version that Brunot
> Ducrot send me this morning to fix compilation errors).