Removing AC adapter creates battery spikes
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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gnome-power-manager (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: gnome-power-manager
When plugging or unplugging the ac adapter, power usage spikes causing wildly inaccurate battery life remaining estimates. This will cause a "Laptop battery is critically low. Computer will hibernate..." dialog box even if the battery is full.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: gnome-power-manager 2.30.0-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-21-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Jun 7 21:42:13 2010
GnomeSessionIdl
GnomeSessionInh
GnomeSessionSus
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429)
MachineType: MICRO-STAR INTERNATIONAL CO., LTD MS-N014
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=
ProcEnviron:
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-power-manager
dmi.bios.date: 01/08/2010
dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
dmi.bios.version: EN014IG6.10k
dmi.board.
dmi.board.name: MS-N014
dmi.board.vendor: MICRO-STAR INTERNATIONAL CO., LTD
dmi.board.version: REV:1.0
dmi.chassis.
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: MS-N014
dmi.chassis.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmerican
dmi.product.name: MS-N014
dmi.product.
dmi.sys.vendor: MICRO-STAR INTERNATIONAL CO., LTD
Here is the output from upower.