From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alexander Hoogerhuis Subject: Re: Compaq Evo N160: Fixed DSDT - battstat_applet works now Date: 24 Dec 2002 12:36:21 +0100 Sender: acpi-devel-admin-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org Message-ID: <87of7bd4y2.fsf@lapper.ihatent.com> References: <3DFB6C25.4030805@gmx.net> <200212201958.53205@-mixdown.ca> <3E049608.8030807@gmx.net> <200212211352.42773@-mixdown.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: In-Reply-To: <200212211352.42773-T9p8nP5vHr8sA/PxXw9srA@public.gmane.org> Errors-To: acpi-devel-admin-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: To: Andrew Kohlsmith Cc: acpi-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org Andrew Kohlsmith 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 -- Alexander Hoogerhuis | alexh-rpjHciJLgqZBDgjK7y7TUQ@public.gmane.org CCNP - CCDP - MCNE - CCSE | +47 908 21 485 "You have zero privacy anyway. Get over it." --Scott McNealy ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf