Re: Dell Inspiron i8100 with 2 batteries

[Alan Cox]

> of the batteries is less than 50% (according to the bios), then /proc/apm
> shows the battery power level X 2.  If the combined charge of the batteries is
> greater than 50%, then /proc/apm shows:
> 
>     1.16 1.2 0x03 0x01 0xff 0x10 -1% -1 ?
> 
> I think this is because the bogus calculation it would make would result in a
> percentage > 100.
> 
> I took a quick look at arch/i386/kernel/apm.c but it wasn't obvious what to
> do.

The data basically comes from the BIOS as is