[laptop-discuss] Erroneous batstat Output

[Casper.Dik at Sun.COM]

>All...
>
>Dell Latitude D800 WUXGA, 2GB RAM
>SunOS island 5.10 Generic_118855-14 i86pc i386 i86pc
>
>I haven't had a chance to closely examine the batstat source, but I'm
>seeing the following erroneous output:
>
>System is currently on AC power
>System temperature = 55.5C
>Battery 0 status:
>                Percentage remaining: 133%
>Battery 1 not present
>
>It'd be nice to really have that 33% spare power.  :)


Try the "batstat -v" output; it dumps the raw ACPI output.

Then compare this with the ACPI 3.0 standard and be amazed that
the battery is charged more than it's supposed "bif_last_cap".

I think the battery is not in spec; but I could work around it
(but this would likely mean that the battery will stick at 100% while
it is still charging)

Casper