Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 58438
apmd incorrectly detects battery %age
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:39:03 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i586; en-US; rv:0.9.7) Gecko/20020104 Description of problem: I have an IBM iSeries 1300 1171-NM1 ThinkPad which I have Linux on. While using it, I noticed that my battery life was weird. It would go from 16% to 3% immediately. I decided to watch it and see if it was a problem with my battery or my apmd components. I saw that it got to 0% and it took 30 minutes after it hit 0% (while playing sound, so it wasn't just idle) to die. I am using RedHat's i686 2.4.9-13 version of the Linux kernel. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. watch "cat /proc/apm" 2. watch the %age. It's not accurate. . Actual Results: It'll hit 0% and still stay alive Expected Results: It should accurately describe the %age available. Additional info:
/proc/apm is maintained by the kernel, not by apmd. Reassigning there, but it is much more likely that this is a BIOS bug.
The info comes DIRECTLY from the bios.... the kernel is just the messenger
Since this info doesn't come from linux but from the bios, it's "NOTOURBUG". However bugzilla doesn't know that, the closest is "NOTABUG". If you do not agree with this diagnoses please reopen the bug.