[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#462723: hal does not give actual values of battery states with 2.6.24

[Didier Raboud]

Package: hal
Version: 0.5.10-5
Severity: important

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Hi, 

I think that hal is not reporting what it should about battery states (at 
least).

Testcase :
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$ date +%H:%M:%S && 
hal-get-property --udi /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/computer_power_supply_0 --key 
battery.charge_level.percentage
02:06:11
25
didier at Tamino:~$ sudo /etc/init.d/hal restart
Restarting Hardware abstraction layer: hald.
didier at Tamino:~$ date +%H:%M:%S && 
hal-get-property --udi /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/computer_power_supply_0 --key 
battery.charge_level.percentage
02:06:26
33
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So I won 8% of battery charging level in 15 seconds ! I can reproduce even 
better results by waiting more.

The thing that makes this bug important is that (at least) kpowersave is based 
on these results (current, percentage, rate, ...) and is the one responsible 
for getting my computer into suspend when the battery gets too low. It can't 
do that if it can't get accurate results...

Please ask if you need details.

Regards, 

Didier

--- System information. ---
Architecture: amd64
Kernel:       Linux 2.6.24-1-amd64

Debian Release: lenny/sid
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--- Package information. ---
Depends                  (Version) | Installed
==================================-+-==============
adduser                            | 3.105
dbus                     (>= 0.61) | 1.1.2-1
hal-info             (>= 20070402) | 20071212-2
libc6                   (>= 2.7-1) | 2.7-6
libdbus-1-3             (>= 1.1.1) | 1.1.2-1
libdbus-glib-1-2         (>= 0.74) | 0.74-1
libexpat1              (>= 1.95.8) | 1.95.8-4
libgcc1               (>= 1:4.2.1) | 1:4.3-20080116-1
libglib2.0-0           (>= 2.14.0) | 2.15.3-1
libhal-storage1                    | 0.5.10-5
libhal1                   (>= 0.5) | 0.5.10-5
libsmbios1                         | 0.13.10-1
libstdc++6              (>= 4.2.1) | 4.3-20080116-1
libusb-0.1-4         (>= 2:0.1.12) | 2:0.1.12-9
libvolume-id0           (>= 0.113) | 0.114-2
lsb-base                           | 3.1-24
mount                    (>= 2.13) | 2.13-8
pciutils                           | 1:2.2.4~pre4-1
pm-utils                           | 0.99.2-3
udev                    (>= 0.065) | 0.114-2
usbutils                           | 0.73-5
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