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ssjlegendx

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Registered: 2008-01-01

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[SOLVED] GNOME Power Manager Icon

Hello,

With the recent influx of GNOME 2.22 packages, gnome-power-manager has begun to behave strangely on my system.

In gnome-power-preferences, I have specified that the notification area icon should only be displayed when my laptop battery is charging or discharging. Since I upgraded my GNOME packages, the icon has always appeared in my notication area upon login -- even if I am running on AC power. In that situation, the tooltip for the icon reads as follows:

Computer is running on AC power
Laptop batteries discharging (100%)
Battery discharge time is currently unknown

If I unplug the power cord from my computer,  the icon (strangely) disappears. If I then proceed to plug the cord back in, the icon will appear briefly (I assume to indicate that what little power was drained from the battery is being replenished) and then disappear once more.

This problem is occurring on a Dell Inspiron 6400 (E1505). I feel that I might need to report this issue as a bug, but I'd first like to know if anyone else has noticed this oddity since the upgrade.

Thanks!

Edit:

It seems as if gnome-power-manager thinks that I have two laptop batteries (though I have only one). Clicking on the notification icon lists two batteries: one with the usual "on AC power" icon and the other with the "discharging" (standard battery) icon.

I do not think that there are any problems with ACPI: running acpi yields the following:

     Battery 1: charged, 100%

I'm not quite sure where gnome-power-manager procures its information about the batteries)....

Last edited by ssjlegendx (2008-04-20 18:34:53)

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baze

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Registered: 2005-10-30

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Re: [SOLVED] GNOME Power Manager Icon

Hello,
I'm not quite sure where gnome-power-manager procures its information about the batteries)....

iirc that's a kernel bug.

JGC

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Registered: 2003-12-03

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Re: [SOLVED] GNOME Power Manager Icon

This is a bug that should be fixed with hal 0.5.11rc2. The old hal detects two batteries, one from /proc and one from /sys. An i686 version of hal will appear this weekend in extra.

ssjlegendx

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Re: [SOLVED] GNOME Power Manager Icon

Thanks! I'll be away from my laptop this weekend, so hopefully all will work well after I return and run a pacman -Syu!

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chris89

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Registered: 2008-03-18

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Re: [SOLVED] GNOME Power Manager Icon

Hi,

Noticed similar problems, g-p-m shows 3 batteries xD ... Now I know what's the problem, thx
I'm looking forward to the new hal..

Last edited by chris89 (2008-04-11 20:29:21)

ssjlegendx

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Re: [SOLVED] GNOME Power Manager Icon

I just updated to HAL 0.5.11rc2-2, and it seems that my problem has been solved!

I didn't see the related bug report before starting this thread.... Thanks, JGC!

Last edited by ssjlegendx (2008-08-02 20:44:41)

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