Re: 2.6.13-rc5 - ACPI regression

From: Rafael J. Wysocki
Date: Tue Aug 02 2005 - 14:15:06 EST


On Tuesday, 2 of August 2005 21:05, Lukas Hejtmanek wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 02, 2005 at 08:59:08PM +0200, Alessandro Suardi wrote:
> > On 8/2/05, Lukas Hejtmanek <xhejtman@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > newly with 2.6.13-rc5 (previous -rc1 was quite ok)
> > >
> > > $ time cat /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/info
> > > present: yes
> > > design capacity: 6000 mAh
> > > last full capacity: 6000 mAh
> > > battery technology: rechargeable
> > > design voltage: 14800 mV
> > > design capacity warning: 600 mAh
> > > design capacity low: 300 mAh
> > > capacity granularity 1: 60 mAh
> > > capacity granularity 2: 60 mAh
> > > model number: M6A
> > > serial number:
> > > battery type: LIon
> > > OEM info: ASUSTEK
> > >
> > > real 0m32.521s
> > > user 0m0.001s
> > > sys 0m0.015s
> >
> > Different data point, in case this might be useful...
> >
> > Dell Latitude C640, uptodate FC4, kernel built with stock GCC 4.0.1:
> >
> > time cat /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/info
> > present: yes
> > design capacity: 65120 mWh
> > last full capacity: 45300 mWh
> > battery technology: rechargeable
> > design voltage: 14800 mV
> > design capacity warning: 3000 mWh
> > design capacity low: 1000 mWh
> > capacity granularity 1: 200 mWh
> > capacity granularity 2: 200 mWh
> > model number: LIP8120DLP
> > serial number: 363
> > battery type: LION
> > OEM info: Sony Corp.
>
> I did not notice before, but my values (capacity and so on) are completely
> wrong. It should contain values in mWh instead of mAh.

There's a new kernel boot oprion ec_polling that you may want to try.

Greets,
Rafael


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