(explained) Re: [ltp] KDE Battery widget reads 11% w/ charged battery

Jeffrey L. Taylor linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Sat, 28 May 2011 17:57:49 -0500


Quoting Jeffrey L. Taylor <jeff@abluz.dyndns.org>:
> My new T520 has been working fine with OpenSuSE 11.4 and KDE installed.  Up
> unitl Wednesday, the battery widget in the panel read 98% charged.  Starting
> sometime Thursday, it turned red and reads "11% (charged)".  It continues to
> read the same after a couple of hours of suspend to ram and overnight suspend
> to disk.
> 

This is a KDE bug affecting the battery charge widget, sometimes after suspend
and resume.  T410, T420, T510, and T520 seem particularly suseptible.

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=268109

Jeffrey