[all/fso?] external battery "just mobile gum pro" woes

[Rask Ingemann Lambertsen]

On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 02:50:38PM +0200, arne anka wrote:
> the opp battery view offers thre buttons for 100/500/1000 mA, i hit all  
> three time or another -- no change.

   That's because they don't work unless you run opp as root.

> i guess, i should give the plain fso call a try -- but i don't see, how  
> that would explain the oscillating.

   That could be just FSO getting confused. What you want to look at is the
battery current. In opp, positive means charging and negative means
discharging. In /sys/class/power_supply/battery/current_now, it is the other
way around.

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