Bug 471698

Summary:	Kpowersave shows very wrong battery time
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE 11.1	Reporter:	vegard myrvang <vegard.myrvang>
Component:	Mobile Devices	Assignee:	Danny Al-Gaaf <dalgaaf>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P4 - Low
Version:	Final
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	i686
OS:	openSUSE 11.1
Whiteboard:
Found By:	---	Services Priority:
Business Priority:		Blocker:	---
Marketing QA Status:	---	IT Deployment:	---
Attachments:	screenshot lshal -m lshal -s lshal

Description vegard myrvang 2009-02-02 21:20:42 UTC

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; nb-NO; rv:1.9.0.5) Gecko/2008121300 SUSE/3.0.5-1.1 Firefox/3.0.5

kpowersave is very inaccurate battery time.
on my asus eee 900 it can go from 2.5h too 5.5h and some times it can show 12h even when red led for low battery is blinking.

opensuse 11.1 kde3


Reproducible: Always

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Comment 1 vegard myrvang 2009-02-02 21:22:26 UTC

Created attachment 269395 [details]
screenshot

screenshot

Comment 2 Danny Al-Gaaf 2009-02-09 12:42:22 UTC

Please run 'lshal -m' on a console over e.g. 30 or 60 minutes and attach the output to this bug. And please provide also the output of lshal

Comment 3 vegard myrvang 2009-02-09 15:39:24 UTC

Created attachment 271263 [details]
lshal -m

output from lshal -m

Comment 4 vegard myrvang 2009-02-09 15:40:24 UTC

Created attachment 271265 [details]
lshal -s

output from lshal was too long.
hope it's okey with the short version, lshal -s

Comment 5 Danny Al-Gaaf 2009-02-09 16:25:59 UTC

(In reply to comment #4)
> Created an attachment (id=271265) [details]
> lshal -s
> 
> output from lshal was too long.
> hope it's okey with the short version, lshal -s

no, the short version is complete useless.

Comment 6 vegard myrvang 2009-02-09 16:54:41 UTC

Created attachment 271290 [details]
lshal

Comment 7 vegard myrvang 2009-02-09 16:56:23 UTC

the output from lshal is about 5000 lines.
the file above is what i was able to get from cli.
anyway to redirect the output to a file ?
Hopefully the attachment will be enough

vegard

Comment 8 Danny Al-Gaaf 2009-02-09 18:20:01 UTC

I need the full output. You can use 'lshal > /tmp/lshal' and attach /tmp/lshal to this bug.

Comment 9 Danny Al-Gaaf 2009-02-09 18:30:36 UTC

There is nothing we can do, looks like a hardware (battery) or bios bug. The battery.charge_level.last_full value is permanently changing. This value should be stable over discharging. This value has an affect on the remaining time calculation. 

Another problem is that the battery.charge_level.last_full (something around 730) and battery.charge_level.current value is massively lower than the value for battery.charge_level.design (38802) 

You may should report the problem to the vendor of the machine. I have to close the bug, since this isn't a software problem.