g-p-m does not indicate battery state correctly + changing brightness to random values.
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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gnome-power-manager (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Low
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Hello,
The issue is as follows:
Running Ubuntu Gutsy 7.10 on MSI PR200 notebook (Specifications: http://
The problem is that when the battery is plugged (no matter if it is on AC power or not) the LCD brightness control changes itself. After i adjust it from the keyboard Fn+F5 it "resets" itself to some new value (not set by me, not set in Power Management settings as well). The LCD brightness control on the panel is inactive after that. The settings in Power Management are:
Dim display when idle - disabled
Set display brightness to - this value changes itself without my interaction
The other thing that is probably connected is that the battery is indicated incorrectly. It changes it state from 100% loaded to 0% loaded (even with power cable plugged in). Once it displayed an error that it cannot read the battery state and it may be damaged. It also shut the computer once. The battery is new. On Windows OS it doesn't indicate any failures. I tested it with software and it didn't show any problems.
When the battery is not plugged and the notebook is working on AC only, there is no problem.
It seems to me that the Power Manager acts totally chaotic when battery is plugged.
Here is what's written about the battery in /proc/acpi/
==State==
present: yes
capacity state: ok
charging state: charged
present rate: unknown
remaining capacity: unknown
present voltage: 10000 mV
==Info==
present: yes
design capacity: 53266 mAh
last full capacity: 49170 mAh
battery technology: rechargeable
design voltage: 46649 mV
design capacity warning: 0 mAh
design capacity low: 0 mAh
capacity granularity 1: 1 mAh
capacity granularity 2: 1 mAh
model number: MS-1221
serial number:
battery type: LION
OEM info: MSI Corp.
==Alarm==
alarm: unsupported
Please advice! I was looking for bugs and solutions but didn't find anything like this and my knowledge is not enough to fix this myself. If you need any other info, i'll provide as soon as possible.
Thanks in advance.
Thanks for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Could you please run the following command: gnome-power- bugreport. sh &> gpm.log and attach that file to the bug report? Thanks in advance.