Public bug reported:
### Summary: powertop does not accurately determine battery discharge
rate on HP Elitebook 850 G5 ###
### Description ###
On an HP Elitebook 850 G5 running Ubuntu 18.10 powertop does not accurately
report the battery discharge rate.
The reported discharge rate & estimated remaining time are always
impossibly low / high respectively. See example snippet from powertop
header below.
### Configuration ###
HP Elitebook 850 G5
Ubunutu 18.10, 4.18.0-13-generic
powertop v2.9
tlp w/default settings
### Example ###
The battery reports a discharge rate of 366 mW
The power consumed was 0.00 J
The estimated remaining time is 49 hours, 2 minutes
### Package Version ###
powertop:
Installed: 2.9-0ubuntu2
Candidate: 2.9-0ubuntu2
Version table:
*** 2.9-0ubuntu2 500
500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu cosmic/main amd64 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
### Steps to Reproduce ###
1. Install Ubuntu 18.10 on HP Elitebook 850 G5
2. Install tlp from repos
3. Install powertop from repos
4. Run powertop while running on battery
5. Examine header info while in the Overview tab
** Affects: powertop (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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powertop does not accurately determine battery discharge rate on HP
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