BUG wrong values for battery

[Andrwe Lord Weber]

Dear Paul,

Paul Menzel wrote:
> Dear Andrwe,
>
>
> Am Samstag, den 04.04.2009, 15:22 +0200 schrieb Andrwe Lord Weber:
>
>    
>> hal sets wrong values for the battery on my laptop.
>>
>> my Configuration:
>> - gentoo-sources
>> - hal version 0.5.12_rc1 with the USE-Flags "X acpi crypt kernel_linux
>> laptop".
>> - "sysfs" is activated in kernel
>>
>> These variables are wrong:
>>
>> battery.charge_level.percentage
>> battery.charge_level.rate
>> battery.reporting.rate
>>
>> It seems to me the percentage is calculated by the following formula on
>> my system:
>>
>> battery.charge_level.percentage = battery.charge_level.current /
>> battery.charge_level.design * 100
>>
>> This is the reason why I get 65 % as maximum percentage.
>>
>> The *.rate variables have a maximum value of 2500 if I compile
>> something. This cause a remaining time>20 hours.
>>      
>
> As far as I know HAL just reports the values from the Linux kernel(?)
> and it is a well known bug there. Some batteries report the absolute
> current and others a percentage and there is now way to decide which
> does what. You can find more information in the thread of [1].
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Paul
>
>
> [1] http://www.bughost.org/pipermail/power/2008-November/001502.html
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These are bad news but thank you very much.
Then I had to use my own script to get correct values about my battery 
because all progs I know use the values from HAL.
Or do you know some which doesn't?

Regards,
Andrwe