My laptop's battery is bigger than yours

[Richard Hughes]

2009/11/12 Sam Varshavchik <mrsam at courier-mta.com>:
> Somehow, since a few weeks ago, occasionally gnome power manager loses its
> mind and starts telling me that my laptop battery's "last full charge" is
> 946.0 watt-hours of juice. Which makes the battery percentage indicator
> pretty much meaningless.

Have a look at /sys/class/power_supply/BAT*/* when this happens. I
would bet money the kernel is lying to us.

Richard.