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From: Alexey Starikovskiy <aystarik@gmail.com>
To: Eric Atkin <eric@certus.bz>
Cc: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: New battery doesn't work under linux, but does under windows
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 00:16:15 +0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <48F64F8F.4070004@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200810151359.58976.eric@certus.bz>

Eric Atkin wrote:
> So I bought a new battery for my laptop and installed it. I booted into Linux 
> (gentoo) and kpowersave recognized the new battery and for the next few hours 
> showed it charging up. The guy at the battery store said I should charge it 
> fully and then discharge fully to calibrate, so, once full, i disconnected AC 
> power and continued to work. kpowersave recognize that power had been removed 
> and showed the battery discharging at a normal rate. After about 1 minute, my 
> laptop just shut off. No warnings or attempts to suspend or hibernate or 
> anything. Power was just cut off. I tested several times and always got the 
> same result. I assumed it was a bad battery, but then I had to boot into 
> windows for something and decided to try it there. In windows, I waited till 
> the charge was at 100% then disconnected AC and let it run. It ran for about 
> two hours as expected before dying. But if I boot back into linux, it dies 
> again after just a minute or two. I don't even know where to begin. Any 
> ideas? $170 battery that I can't take back because it does actually work, and 
> anyway, it seems to be a software issue.
> Eric
>   
First, you should tell us your kernel version and loaded battery module
(battery.ko or sbs.ko)
Second, please do a "grep . /proc/acpi/battery/*/*" with attached AC
and try to do this with it disconnected.
It might be a good idea to open a new bug report in bugzilla.kernel.org 
for ACPI/battery and assign it to
astarikovskiy@suse.de (me).

Regards,
Alex.

  reply	other threads:[~2008-10-15 20:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-15 19:59 New battery doesn't work under linux, but does under windows Eric Atkin
2008-10-15 20:16 ` Alexey Starikovskiy [this message]
     [not found]   ` <200810151441.37779.eric@certus.bz>
2008-10-15 21:09     ` Alexey Starikovskiy

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