gnome-power-manager not recognizing battery

noamsml · 2007-01-24 23:42:54

Gnome-power-manager seems to act as if I have no battery whatsoever, and, when I am on battery power, keeps saying that I am running on AC power, despite the fact that both typing "acpi" into a terminal and the battery monitor applet give the correct state. I do have the dbus and acpid daemons running (they're in my rc.conf), and my laptop is an Acer Aspire 3618AWLCI.

Does anyone know what I could do? I would much rather use gnome-power manager than the batter monitor applet.

vlaaad · 2007-02-04 20:22:11

I have exactly the same problem since I updated dbus to 1.0.2 in current. It worked like a charm before that.

Stalwart · 2007-02-04 21:05:54

I had acer too. They have buggy DSDT table. Check http://acpi.sourceforge.net/dsdt/index.php

vlaaad · 2007-02-05 14:15:55

I realized that my problem since the update is that hald crashes after the session is launched. noamsml, did you check that hald is running on your laptop ?

Last edited by vlaaad (2007-02-05 14:17:04)

cougar · 2007-02-05 15:55:41

Same on my laptop (IBM). HAL seems to terminate itself after a while.
The problem appeared since last update.

vlaaad · 2007-02-06 08:34:33

That's a really annoying problem. Gnome-power-manager even refuses to hibernate. I can still hibernate with the command line but hald and gpm then often crashes when resuming. I wonder if we should not open a bug.

cougar · 2007-02-06 08:51:30

Sure we should. There are topics about that everywhere on the forum.

vlaaad · 2007-02-06 11:06:54

Bug filed :
http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/6351

mcekk · 2007-02-08 14:31:12

I had the same problem on my Satellite P15, after upgrading to dbus 1.0.
For now, I downgraded to dbus-0.93-2 and dbus-glib-0.71 (I you still have a copy in /var/cache/pacman/pkg) and solved the problem.

vlaaad · 2007-02-08 14:44:08

mcekk, you may safely update now, the bug has been fixed. At least, all works fine now on my laptop.

sincity · 2007-02-12 04:12:16

How do you guys get gnome-power-manager to hibernate? When I click it nothing happens. Am I meant to change permissions or is there something else I can do? Of course running "hibernate" as root via the command line works...

vlaaad · 2007-02-12 09:00:44

Your user must belong to the power group. ;-)
That should be sufficient !

sincity · 2007-02-12 15:36:34

vlaaad wrote:

Your user must belong to the power group. ;-)
That should be sufficient !

Thanks

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