[Bug 11849] Battery status applet doesn't show time remaining

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------- Additional Comments From ralph at inputplus.co.uk  2005-07-08 09:43 UTC -------
(In reply to comment #3)
> ==> /proc/acpi/battery/BAT1/state <==
> present:                 yes
> capacity state:          ok
> charging state:          discharging
> present rate:            0 mA
> remaining capacity:      3583 mAh
> present voltage:         42176 mV

It looks like the acpi driver in the Linux kernel is giving the `present
rate' as 0mA and that stops the Gnome applet doing any time predictions.
Here's the relevant bit of drivers/acpi.

    483         if (bst->present_rate == ACPI_BATTERY_VALUE_UNKNOWN)
    484                 seq_printf(seq, "present rate:            unknown\n");
    485         else
    486                 seq_printf(seq, "present rate:            %d %s\n",
    487                         (u32) bst->present_rate, units);

So the value isn't `unknown', but is 0 anyway.  I'd suggest this bug's
switched to the Linux kernel package as it's
/proc/acpi/battery/BAT1/state that has to be correct before the Gnome
applet can do anything.


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