Wont work for me. Posted solution in fedora-bugreport linked above, inserted here for convinience:
seems the same problem persists on my laptop.. for me its not "rate" or "power_now" but "charge_now". $ ls -l /sys/class/power_supply/* lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Mai 8 10:40 /sys/class/power_supply/AC -> ../../devices/LNXSYSTM:00/LNXSYBUS:00/ACPI0003:00/power_supply/AC lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Mai 8 10:40 /sys/class/power_supply/BAT -> ../../devices/LNXSYSTM:00/LNXSYBUS:00/PNP0A08:00/device:00/PNP0C09:00/PNP0C0A:00/power_supply/BAT $ for d in /sys/class/power_supply/*; do echo $d; cat $d/uevent; done /sys/class/power_supply/AC POWER_SUPPLY_NAME=AC POWER_SUPPLY_ONLINE=0 /sys/class/power_supply/BAT POWER_SUPPLY_NAME=BAT POWER_SUPPLY_STATUS=Discharging POWER_SUPPLY_PRESENT=1 POWER_SUPPLY_TECHNOLOGY=Li-ion POWER_SUPPLY_CYCLE_COUNT=0 POWER_SUPPLY_VOLTAGE_MIN_DESIGN=14800000 POWER_SUPPLY_VOLTAGE_NOW=15588000 POWER_SUPPLY_CHARGE_FULL_DESIGN=5200000 POWER_SUPPLY_CHARGE_FULL=5078000 POWER_SUPPLY_CHARGE_NOW=4114000 POWER_SUPPLY_CAPACITY=81 POWER_SUPPLY_MODEL_NAME=BAT POWER_SUPPLY_MANUFACTURER=NOTEBOOK POWER_SUPPLY_SERIAL_NUMBER=0001 -- Using "PowerTOP versionv2.1, compiled on Aug 23 2012" (the current in Kubuntu 13.04) fix should be similar to https://bugzilla.redhat.com/attachment.cgi?id=565604&action=diff -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/998830 Title: power usage in watts not being displayed (battery discharge rate) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/powertop/+bug/998830/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
