On Sunday 27 January 2008 21:25:57 John E. Perry wrote:
Since I don't know how often you monitor the list, I'm sending a copy to you personally to be sure it gets there quickly.
The thread started back in September or October when I commented (I believe during a different thread) that my kpowersave showed strange values for time and % remaining -- things like 17 hours remaining, or a few seconds, with the icon showing nearly full.
After some list discussion about configuration, and whether the battery manager was sending the correct information to kpowersavemanager, and my resistance to confronting hp about the problem (xp shows reasonable values), Hans Petter suggested I try gnome-power-manager to see what it said.
gpm works fine, gives reasonable values (like xp), and shows a nice history of battery voltage and such.
I don't know what I could say in a bug report, though, I guess I could resurrect kpowersave and write down some values, but I have no idea how to get to any original values from the battery controller. Does kpowermanager keep a log as gnome pm apparently does? How might I get to either or both?
The above 4 paragraphs are reasonable for a report. The burden does not lie on you to know in detail what to report, just to respond to our (hopefully easy to follow) requests for extra info. You could start the ball rolling by putting the raw info from /proc/acpi/battery and the output of lshal -l in the bug report. If do we need any extra info we'll ask in the BR. Remember there may be others with the same problem who aren't willing to switch to g-p-m so it's worth reporting the bug. Will -- Will Stephenson Desktop Engineer KDE Team -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org