No battery status in System Status Area

[Chris Gummin]

There isn't a Battery status notifier in the system status area, which is a big problem, considering I'm using a laptop.

[ombra (johannes-doblmann)]

Hi there,

did you try to start the gnome-power-manager using a console? I thnk it helped on my notebook.

[Chris Gummin (proxy-qtz-deactivatedaccount)]

I had to revert to the normal Natty because there was an issue with hard drive space. The partitions on my SSD weren't done correctly, so I only had about 4.9 gigs out of 16 accessible to Ubuntu. I had to reinstall Natty, but now I have about 9 gigs. 9.8 if you include my SD card, which I use for documents and Downloads and stuff.

[JC Hulce (soaringsky)]

I have not had a chance to try running it from a terminal, and I do not know how to check if SMBus drivers are in use.

[Chris Gummin (proxy-qtz-deactivatedaccount)]

Just run Jockey-gtk. That's the driver manager. See which drivers are in use. Post a list of which ones are.

[JC Hulce (soaringsky)]

There are no drivers that appear in that driver manager on either system. Its actually the same computer, just one of the installs is my ubuntu/xubuntu/gnome3 mashup main install (it works, and uses the GNOME 3 team's PPA without UGR), and another is pure UGR(no icon). They are on different partitions.

[Chris Gummin (proxy-qtz-deactivatedaccount)]

This bug has been fixed with the new power manger. Unfortunately, the battery icon is very small. Like so small I had to zoom in to tell what the heck it was.