Re: linux-next on thinkpad x60: full battery is indicated as battery error in mate

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Mon Mar 12 2018 - 15:49:52 EST


On Mon 2018-03-12 20:47:15, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Did something change recently with battery reporting? Fully charged
> battery shows as empty battery with red "x" in Mate desktop. After
> reboot to recent mainline problem goes away. Tooltip says "battery
> waiting to charge".
>
> /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/state looks ok:
> present: yes
> capacity state: ok
> charging state: charged
> present rate: 0 mW
> remaining capacity: 41240 mWh
> present voltage: 16495 mV
>
> Linux amd 4.16.0-rc3-next-20180302 #30 SMP Fri Mar 2 10:28:44 CET 2018
> i686 GNU/Linux
> pavel@amd:~$ cat /sys/class/power_supply/BAT0/status
> Not charging

Reboot to mainline:

pavel@amd:~$ uname -a
Linux amd 4.16.0-rc4+ #509 SMP Thu Mar 8 15:28:06 CET 2018 i686
GNU/Linux
pavel@amd:~$ cat /sys/class/power_supply/BAT0/status
Unknown

Mate shows it as "laptop battery is fully charged".

> Thinkpad X60.
>
> Pavel



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