Comment 17 for bug 38795

This problem exists for me in Intrepid as well. I am up-to-date as of 30 Sept. A secondary issue (that I will report in a separate bug) is that the gnome-power-manager icon does not reflect that I am currently plugged in. That is not always the case, but is so now. Taking a cue from pinguino I'll report some system information below:

$ sudo cat /proc/acpi/battery/BAT*/*
alarm: unsupported
present: yes
design capacity: 5200 mAh
last full capacity: 3668 mAh
battery technology: rechargeable
design voltage: 11100 mV
design capacity warning: 520 mAh
design capacity low: 157 mAh
capacity granularity 1: 52 mAh
capacity granularity 2: 52 mAh
model number: DELL NX5117
serial number: 10743
battery type: LION
OEM info: DP-LGC52
present: yes
capacity state: ok
charging state: charging
present rate: 1342 mA
remaining capacity: 511 mAh
present voltage: 11579 mV

Will attach the output of lshal.