battery state - hw.acpi.battery.life goes only down

[Michael Schuh]

Hi @all,

i can confirm that there ist a problem with the battery state.

the sysctl hw.acpi.battery.life on my system goes only down NOT up again.

this wrong number seems persistent during a reboot.
i tested this, shortly.
the battery life after reboot was 97% with power supply plugged in all the
times.

after a clean boot the system camed up with a battery.life of 97% ( power
supply plugged in :O ).
this seemed silly to me. i rebooted again. again just 97%.

i pulled the plug, the battery.life is gone down one percent after some
minutes and the battery.time
was correct calculated. i plugged the power supply in again and the
battery.life counter goes not up again.

i use some time conky to monitor and display the battery data.
not sure if that is related but if i have Xorg and conky
running during the make world the system crashes silently. this behaviouir
showed up after i configured conky to
monitor the battery states.
during the actual build i have disabled conky to figure if that will crash
the system or something else.

the system is a samsung n310 (Intel N270, 2Gig Memory) with one or two week
old /usr/src.
actually a new make world with updated sources is running. this will take a
half day or so. :-)

i detected this behavior now and it may got incorporated in the
PRERELEASE/STABLE-Code
in the last two month.

before that time i had a right behavior, that showed correct numers for
charging/discharching.

i searched already in the net for solutions or sources of this behaviour.
nothing related found.
may be i have overlooked something?

any ideas to solve this or advisories for further tests?

many thanks

best regards

m.

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