Re: Compaq Evo N160: Fixed DSDT - battstat_applet works now

[Alexander Hoogerhuis <alexh-rpjHciJLgqZBDgjK7y7TUQ@public.gmane.org>]

Andrew Kohlsmith <akohlsmith-acpi-uiYP0llB1AZBDgjK7y7TUQ@public.gmane.org> writes:

> > One question arose during the last days: What is the "last full
> > capacity" of your battery? Is it near 4000 mAh as specified by Compaq?
> 
> I've currently see 3357mAh in the "last full capacity" -- I too patched 
> klaptopdaemon to use this value instead of the design capacity since I'd only 
> ever get as high as 98%, which suggests 3920mAh was seen at some point.  :-)
> 
> > I'm not really satisfied with this "solution" either, as "my" value of
> > 3357 mAh probably is only correct for my special Evo n160 (or to be more
> > precise: my one's battery) at a special time.
> 
> Exactly -- I just patched klaptopdaemon to keep the highest "last full 
> capacity" as a high-water mark (but it isn't persistent).
> 

While on Compaq Evo's and batteries... I've got a n800c, and when it
was new (this summer) it would run a normal length of work on
batteries under XP (more than 2 hours), these days it will charge the
battery and claim it to be full and the windows batt-stat-applet will
say I've got an hour left. In real the machine will not survive 20
minutes on battery.

Having a think back, this all started to go down the drain at the same
time I started experimenting with Linux and ACPI. Is there any way
that the ACPI bits in the linux-kernels could have messed with the
battery in such a way?

I've ran mostly 2.4.x with acpi patches applied; although
/proc/acpi/battery always remians emtpy.

mvh,
A
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