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miau

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 202

AC/Battery status detection issues...

Hello,

i'm using a Fujitsu Siemens Esprimo U9200 Laptop. Everything is working fine except that gnome power manager or batterymon show the correct status of my battery or AC.  When i unplug my ac gnome power manager displays the charging icon and batterymon says "On AC". After a few minutes gnome power manager still plays the battery icon with the ac-cord and tells me that the battery is full. Batterymon also says that i'm still on AC, but the battery level shows up correct. Also the settings in gnome power manager don't work correctly..when i'm on battery and move the slider for the brightness control under AC in the gnome power manager control panel my brightness changes...also the dim on idle function does not work correctly....

Maybe someone can help me

Farstar

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Registered: 2009-04-22

Posts: 7

Re: AC/Battery status detection issues...

The same problem on my MSI PR210. In KDE it works fine...

fishonadish

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Registered: 2006-11-04

Posts: 125

Re: AC/Battery status detection issues...

Hi,

I'm having similar issues with gnome power manager.  The notification messages are incorrect - i.e. when I unplug the AC it says "Battery fully charged", when I plug it back in it says "Battery discharging" etc.  However it isn't consistent - the icon is usually correct for battery/AC.  A few other symptoms:

1. Battery icon sometimes stays at 100% after unplugging and doesn't go down at all (the red battery light is the only indication I get that I'm out of power).
2. It occasionally thinks I'm out of power when I'm on AC and shuts the system down.

If anyone has a  solution to this, please let me know.

Fishonadish

Hohoho

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Registered: 2007-06-23

Posts: 222

Re: AC/Battery status detection issues...

Yep, same issues here on a Dell Inspiron 1520 laptop.
Also, sometimes there's this glitch, where last full charge jumps to some huge number, thus making battery level to be very low and forcing a shutdown

fishonadish

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Registered: 2006-11-04

Posts: 125

Re: AC/Battery status detection issues...

Yep, same issues here on a Dell Inspiron 1520 laptop.

Forgot to mention the hardware - same laptop here.

Fishonadish

Asathoor

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Registered: 2009-03-08

Posts: 2

Re: AC/Battery status detection issues...

Same problem here. I use an Fujitsu Siemens Esprimo Mobile laptop.

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Registered: 2006-11-26

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Re: AC/Battery status detection issues...

Maybe it's just the backend? I have the same thing with Conky reporting battery status or charge levels - if I unplug the power (or take out the battery) it just keep showing the last battery status, until I restart Conky.

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ngoonee

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Registered: 2009-03-17

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Re: AC/Battery status detection issues...

Same problem here, Gnome as well, Asus F8SG

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Asathoor

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Registered: 2009-03-08

Posts: 2

Re: AC/Battery status detection issues...

Gnome-power-manager told, that the battery was discharging even though I used the transformator. As a "work-around" I have tried to turn off the gnome-power-manager in the > system > preferences > Startup Applications. So far it's ok...

mits

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From: Bucharest/Romania

Registered: 2008-01-10

Posts: 129

Re: AC/Battery status detection issues...

Did you search/see/try these:
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=70463

Void_Walker

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Registered: 2009-06-17

Posts: 53

Re: AC/Battery status detection issues...

Do you guys have a working HAL,acpid and acpi?

zenlord

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From: Belgium

Registered: 2006-05-24

Posts: 1,221

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Re: AC/Battery status detection issues...

Fujitsu Amilo: same thing, although I don't use gnome power manager, but only conky.

I do get notifications about 'something ACPI something missing', but was never able to find the cause of that. acpid is running alright, but it might be quirky on my setup.

Zl.

miau

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 202

Re: AC/Battery status detection issues...

It's because of the HAL-Backend. If using the Gnome Battery applet without hal, everything is shown correct.

ewaller

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From: Pasadena, CA

Registered: 2009-07-13

Posts: 19,822

Re: AC/Battery status detection issues...

Try using gconf-editorto add a key:

/schemas/apps/battstat-applet/prefs/no_hal

Set the type to boolean

And then set the value of that key to False

Restart gnome-power-manager

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Dj_kourampies

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From: Greece

Registered: 2005-11-02

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Re: AC/Battery status detection issues...

I ve found a solution that works for the U9200. For now I havent posted the package/patch but if anyone is interested, i ll gladly post a package or a how to.
More info here: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 31#p910531