Thread: Pybattery - battery statusbar applet with candies
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Mentalist Traceur is offline Mentalist Traceur
2010-10-08 , 02:54
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#586
It's not the AP (in fact APM) bug. It's the difference in Nokia's BME and bq27x00 module. To make APM support power-kernel's battery module new wrapper should be written. It's quite easy
Hmmm... I'll see if rmmod bq27x00_battery makes the proper value get reported. Of course, with only one module reporting battery life the only way I can really test how accurate it is is time how long it takes for it to die after it reaches "0%".

Do you know anything about why the two kernel modules (if BME is a kernel module by definition - not sure) conflict? Does BME just always interact with the power kernel poorly, or does the bq27x00 module running at the same time as BME conflict?

Is there any documentation or technical details on why the two modules cause problems that you either know or can direct me to? (In the meantime, I'm reading through this entire thread. I'm at page 15 right now, so it'll take a while before I get through the entire thing for any useful info it may have.)

As for writing a new wrapper, I myself don't really know where to start with that, but I suspect that by the time I get around to being familiar enough with python for that to make a difference, I will know enough to figure it out.

Well, I can develop a bit ) Just because a lot of things are already made, implementing new features is not that hard. But no opportunity to test (
Well, I'm happy to keep testing stuff, and to give you as detailed of reports on the results as possible, if you wish to continue.

In fact, it's quite easy, 'cause all the stuff is Python. Feel free to ask I still can develop a bit and help to improve
I can just get the current source from the garage page or through apt-get, right? Do you still plan on releasing the new features you were working on before your N900 died?