asus eee battery meter

[mje1708]

Hi
I have an Asus EEE PC900. Just installed 10.04 netbook remix and everything works fine straight out of the box. I am very pleased with ubuntu - it works great and is a vast improvement on windows xp which was previously installed on the asus.

Just one small thing - the battery meter is never accurate as far as time remaining goes - it currently says i have 19 hours 55 minutes to go - unfortunately this is not quite true i suspect. It was the same with 9.10, Does anyone have a solution for this?

Thanks

Mike

[Brian Kendig]

Same problem on my EeePC 900. It tells me the battery has 19 hours 55 minutes of power left, no matter what.

[kerry_s]

woohoo! thats a full days use. if only it was true.

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EeePC/Fixes

see power management.

[Brian Kendig]

Thanks for the tip. I made those suggested grub config changes, and I installed eee-applet, but my EeePC still reports the battery charge incorrectly.

[dserodio]

I'd love to fix this problem, this is the main problem with Ubuntu on my eee.