[Bug 68834] battery support in hal broken on acer aspire 3003lci

[Andrew Paulin]

Public bug reported:

For some reason, HAL will not report correct battery life on my laptop.
It will report 100% until acpi reports ~76%, at which point HAL reports
a total of 0% battery left.  The output of hal-device | grep battery
follows

andrew at IsaeliaOne:~$ hal-device | grep battery
  battery.charge_level.rate = 1  (0x1)  (int)
  battery.charge_level.last_full = 1  (0x1)  (int)
  battery.charge_level.current = 0  (0x0)  (int)
  battery.voltage.current = 1  (0x1)  (int)
  battery.reporting.rate = 1646  (0x66e)  (int)
  battery.reporting.current = 743  (0x2e7)  (int)
  battery.charge_level.capacity_state = 'ok'  (string)
  battery.rechargeable.is_discharging = true  (bool)
  battery.rechargeable.is_charging = false  (bool)
  battery.is_rechargeable = true  (bool)
  battery.charge_level.unit = 'mWh'  (string)
  battery.charge_level.granularity_2 = 473  (0x1d9)  (int)
  battery.charge_level.granularity_1 = 473  (0x1d9)  (int)
  battery.charge_level.low = 740  (0x2e4)  (int)
  battery.charge_level.warning = 2960  (0xb90)  (int)
  battery.charge_level.design = 29600  (0x73a0)  (int)
  battery.voltage.design = 14800  (0x39d0)  (int)
  battery.voltage.unit = 'mV'  (string)
  battery.reporting.granularity_2 = 32  (0x20)  (int)
  battery.reporting.granularity_1 = 32  (0x20)  (int)
  battery.reporting.low = 50  (0x32)  (int)
  battery.reporting.warning = 200  (0xc8)  (int)
  battery.reporting.design = 2000  (0x7d0)  (int)
  battery.reporting.last_full = 1273  (0x4f9)  (int)
  battery.reporting.unit = 'mAh'  (string)
  battery.technology = 'LION'  (string)
  battery.serial = '50638'  (string)
  battery.model = '12ZL'  (string)
  battery.vendor = 'SONY'  (string)
  battery.present = true  (bool)
  info.capabilities = { 'battery' } (string list)
  info.category = 'battery'  (string)
  battery.type = 'primary'  (string)
  linux.acpi_path = '/proc/acpi/battery/BAT1'  (string)

The output of acpi follows:
andrew at IsaeliaOne:~$ acpi
     Battery 1: discharging, 56%, 00:24:16 remaining

My processor is a socket 754 Mobile Sempron 3000+ (1.8 GHz), and I'm
running Kubuntu Edgy

** Affects: hal (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: Unconfirmed

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battery support in hal broken on acer aspire 3003lci
https://launchpad.net/bugs/68834