FC11- getting message about 'battery broken'

[Robert Moskowitz]

I am running gnome and when I log in I get:

Battery may be broken

Your battery has a very low capacity (2%) , which means that it may be
old or broken.


Now I did not get anything like this with FC10 on the system and it
would run a number hours on battery.

How do I check this out?

Oh, the system is an ASUS ee701 with a 4Gb SDD drive and a 8Gb SD card.


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[Chris Tyler]

On Sat, 2009-10-31 at 21:10 -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote:

> I am running gnome and when I log in I get:
>
> Battery may be broken
>
> Your battery has a very low capacity (2%) , which means that it may be
> old or broken.
>
>
> Now I did not get anything like this with FC10 on the system and it
> would run a number hours on battery.
>
> How do I check this out?
>
> Oh, the system is an ASUS ee701 with a 4Gb SDD drive and a 8Gb SD card.

I means what it says: the battery is dead. Remember that the machine was
younger when you were running F10 on it ... the same battery condition
under F10 will produce that message too (I have a laptop which produces
it).

-Chris

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[tim-9-3]

Robert Moskowitz:
>> Now I did not get anything like this with FC10 on the system and it
>> would run a number hours on battery.
>>
>> How do I check this out?

Chris Tyler:
> I means what it says: the battery is dead. Remember that the machine was
> younger when you were running F10 on it ... the same battery condition
> under F10 will produce that message too (I have a laptop which produces
> it).

Or that Fedora 11 can't read the hardware properly that checks on the
battery.  When I updated, 11 said all sorts of silly things about my
battery, but it's fine.  e.g. It thought the battery was always fully
charged, and didn't notice it discharging.  I have a multi-boot laptop,
and it was easy to test with another OS.

As for Robert checking his, if he has another OS, or still has a Fedora
10 installation, or a live disc, he can boot up one of them.  He might
try updating Fedora 11, in case there's an update that improves reading
the hardware.

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[Robert Moskowitz]

Tim wrote:

> Robert Moskowitz:
>  
>>> Now I did not get anything like this with FC10 on the system and it
>>> would run a number hours on battery.
>>>
>>> How do I check this out?
>>>      
>
> Chris Tyler:
>  
>> I means what it says: the battery is dead. Remember that the machine was
>> younger when you were running F10 on it ... the same battery condition
>> under F10 will produce that message too (I have a laptop which produces
>> it).
>>    

I really don't think the battery died in the 2 days from running FC10 to
running FC11.  Plus I was unplugged for 30min recently and the system
just kept plugging along.  We will see tomorrow how well it does on
battery....

>
> Or that Fedora 11 can't read the hardware properly that checks on the
> battery.  When I updated, 11 said all sorts of silly things about my
> battery, but it's fine.  e.g. It thought the battery was always fully
> charged, and didn't notice it discharging.  I have a multi-boot laptop,
> and it was easy to test with another OS.
>
> As for Robert checking his, if he has another OS, or still has a Fedora
> 10 installation, or a live disc, he can boot up one of them.  He might
> try updating Fedora 11, in case there's an update that improves reading
> the hardware.

I don't have another OS handy and the only live CD I have is for FC11.  
And I am hopping on a plane tomorrow evening for 3 days of meetings in
Seattle, so anything I do, has to be quick and easy.

I DID apply the updates, but I am now downloading the everything
directory over my base and when that is done, I need to install OpenOffice.

And now I have another warning from I will post that separately not to
confuse threads.


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[Stewart Williams]

Robert Moskowitz wrote:

> I am running gnome and when I log in I get:
>
> Battery may be broken
>
> Your battery has a very low capacity (2%) , which means that it may be
> old or broken.
>
>
> Now I did not get anything like this with FC10 on the system and it
> would run a number hours on battery.
>
> How do I check this out?
>
> Oh, the system is an ASUS ee701 with a 4Gb SDD drive and a 8Gb SD card.
>
>

Robert, I have an eee 900 and since I installed F11 I've also been
getting this broken battery message. I never had the errors on F10 either.

The battery status information is also erratic, especially the
discharging percentage, it's very buoyant.

The battery seems to last a couple of hours, so it's definitely not dead.

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[Jatin K]

On 11/05/2009 04:19 AM, Stewart Williams wrote:

> Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>    
>> I am running gnome and when I log in I get:
>>
>> Battery may be broken
>>
>> Your battery has a very low capacity (2%) , which means that it may be
>> old or broken.
>>
>>
>> Now I did not get anything like this with FC10 on the system and it
>> would run a number hours on battery.
>>
>> How do I check this out?
>>
>> Oh, the system is an ASUS ee701 with a 4Gb SDD drive and a 8Gb SD card.
>>
>>
>>      
> Robert, I have an eee 900 and since I installed F11 I've also been
> getting this broken battery message. I never had the errors on F10 either.
>
> The battery status information is also erratic, especially the
> discharging percentage, it's very buoyant.
>
> The battery seems to last a couple of hours, so it's definitely not dead.
>
>    

what is the .... the output of " cat /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/info"  and
"cat /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/state "  ???????


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[Stewart Williams]

Jatin K wrote:

> On 11/05/2009 04:19 AM, Stewart Williams wrote:
>> Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>>  
>>> I am running gnome and when I log in I get:
>>>
>>> Battery may be broken
>>>
>>> Your battery has a very low capacity (2%) , which means that it may be
>>> old or broken.
>>>
>>>
>>> Now I did not get anything like this with FC10 on the system and it
>>> would run a number hours on battery.
>>>
>>> How do I check this out?
>>>
>>> Oh, the system is an ASUS ee701 with a 4Gb SDD drive and a 8Gb SD card.
>>>
>>>
>>>      
>> Robert, I have an eee 900 and since I installed F11 I've also been
>> getting this broken battery message. I never had the errors on F10
>> either.
>>
>> The battery status information is also erratic, especially the
>> discharging percentage, it's very buoyant.
>>
>> The battery seems to last a couple of hours, so it's definitely not dead.
>>
>>    
> what is the .... the output of " cat /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/info"  and
> "cat /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/state "  ???????
>
>

Hi Jatin,

Sorry for the delay.

/proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/info:
present:                 yes
design capacity:         5200 mAh
last full capacity:      100 mAh
battery technology:      rechargeable
design voltage:          8400 mV
design capacity warning: 20 mAh
design capacity low:     10 mAh
capacity granularity 1:  52 mAh
capacity granularity 2:  52 mAh
model number:            900
serial number:
battery type:            LION
OEM info:                ASUS

/proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/state:
present:                 yes
capacity state:          ok
charging state:          discharging
present rate:            unknown
remaining capacity:      20 mAh
present voltage:         7170 mV

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