Weird Battery Monitor with FC6 and Acer Aspire 5601
 

I have installed Fedora Core 6 onto my Acer Aspire 5601, and it works well, except the battery monitor appears to be broken.

When I am on battery power, it only reports how much battery is remaining to the nearest 33%, and with that gives a life of either 1 or 3 hours. When it is plugged in and charging, it gives more accurate figures (closest 15-20% or so) and with that says that if I was to unplug my laptop, it would have a two minute life.

I have made sure that I have the correct kernel architecture for what it should, an i686 kernel installed.

What is causingt his problem and can anything be done to rectify and fix it?

Please install the acpitool rpm package from Fedora Extras, as root type from the console or xterm session; yum install acpitool

And if have not done so also do; yum install updates

After you done installing from the console or xterm session type; acpitool -B
Are the results a bit better and more clear to understand??

You might want to check here and see if a BIOS update fixes the problem;

ftp://ftp.support.acer-euro.com/note...pire_5600/bios

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Ok, I installed acpitool and it gave me the correct information for my battery. I also ran yum update to make sure that everything was up to date and was, but I still get the incorrect information on the gui one. Is there a way of making the gui one show the same as the acpitool -B as I would rather not have to type that command in all the time when I want to check the battery life?
I would rather use the gui one if it would somehow work.