tags 557527 moreinfo thanks On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 05:53:26PM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Sun, 2009-11-22 at 17:51 +0100, Lennert Van Alboom wrote: > > Package: linux-2.6 > > Version: 2.6.31-2 > > Severity: normal > > > > When the battery is being charged, its charge will rise steadily until it > > reaches 99%, after which its charge_now jumps to the value held by > > charge_full_design. This basically means that charge_now will hold a value > > larger than the one in charge_full, which confuses (for an example) gkrellm > > up to a point that it reports the battery to suddenly be at "130% full". > > > > I reported this as a bug in gkrellm initially > > (http://bugs.debian.org/551518) > > but it turned out rather quickly to be a sysfs thing. > > > > I noticed this oddity first in kernel 2.6.30-1-686, and upgraded to > > 2.6.31-1-686 following the gkrellm maintainer's advice. This didn't change > > the behaviour. > > The kernel basically reports what the firmware (BIOS) tells it, so this > is probably a BIOS bug, but it might be reasonable to work around it. > Try reporting this upstream at <http://bugzilla.kernel.org> and let us > know the bug number so we can track it.
Did you report this at http://bugzilla.kernel.org ? Cheers, Moritz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100225221146.ga9...@galadriel.inutil.org
