Serious Ubuntu Battery Problem

[adit_sen]

Hi all..

Ubuntu Edgy run's great when i'm plugged in, but the moment I switch to my battery on my laptop, I get a funny problem. I get a message '99% battery remaining, 6minutes remaining'. Then it goes to '97% battery remaining. Critical power. 2minutes remaining'. And finally it goes to 96%, and it shuts down the computer. Even when there's 96% left!!!!! And just to ensure there's no problem with my battery, I boot up with windows and there's no problem watsoever. I can run for a good 2hr stretch before the battery dies down.

How do I fix this? And how do I get Ubuntu not to switch off on the basis of time remaining, but on % of battery life remaining?

Cheers,
Aditya

 

[adit_sen]

My mistake....I meant Windows....now corrected

 

[JGuru]

@Adit_sen, Looks like a bug to me. Send a bug-report to the Ubuntu team. Hopefully
it will get fixed in the next release of Ubuntu Linux.

 

[mediator]

Well my laptop has Edgy too, but there's no such problem in it! It works awesome.
You may goto preferences > power management and see there, if anything's wrong. Try updatig ur system too.

 

[praka123]

something with acpi may be.there are scripts in /etc/acpi/ where battery options are also there.try to read.
may be trying with acpi=off in grub's kernel line and try booting.....