Weird Battery Charge Indicator Issue

[Lalit Dhiri]

On Sat, 2004-12-25 at 22:14 +0000, Eamonn Sullivan wrote:
> > > Let us just say Ubuntu is more conservative in its estimation of what
> > > resources are available to you - I mean, would you trust Bill Gates for
> > > an honest appraisal?
> 
> I'm sitting here reading this thread on an old IBM ThinkPad on Windows
> 2000 and it rarely shows 100 percent either. It's just a symptom of an
> old battery. You need to cycle it through a few discharge once or
> twice, probably.
> 
This battery has only had 27 cycles and is cycled every other month. So
though this might be a symptom of ageing batteries I don't believe it
applies here especially when Windows does show 100% and ubuntu shows
less.... But I will try doing a few cycles over the next few days to see
what happens. Hope it'll work....