Messages in this thread | | | From | John Ruttenberg <> | Date | Fri, 17 May 2002 10:39:37 -0400 | Subject | Re: Dell Inspiron i8100 with 2 batteries |
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I thought I'd try to figure out that there were two batteries and divide by 2 or something like that. Perhaps the bios of this notebook is just broken, though.
Alan Cox: > > of the batteries is less than 50% (according to the bios), then /proc/apm > > shows the battery power level X 2. If the combined charge of the batteries is > > greater than 50%, then /proc/apm shows: > > > > 1.16 1.2 0x03 0x01 0xff 0x10 -1% -1 ? > > > > I think this is because the bogus calculation it would make would result in a > > percentage > 100. > > > > I took a quick look at arch/i386/kernel/apm.c but it wasn't obvious what to > > do. > > The data basically comes from the BIOS as is
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