Bug#342692: kdelibs-bin: kcmshell reports bogus battery power statistics
reassign 342692 klaptopdaemon
forwarded 342692 http://bugs.kde.org/89551
tags 342692 upstream
stop
On Friday 09 December 2005 09:48, Branden Robinson wrote:
> At any rate, on my battery-less desktop system, I get a warning on every
> KDE startup that my battery is low, and the battery monitor wrongly
> reports that I have a battery (which is always empty and never charging).
>
> The battery power level is reported as the highly bogus value -2^32%.
This looks quite like upstream bug #89551. It seems that there is a ppc
kernel issue which results in programs thinking that the system has a
battery, and grabbing a nonsensical value. There are work-arounds, however,
though it would appear that klaptopdaemon hasn't yet implemented one.
Cheers,
Christopher Martin
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