2-nd battary issues while batery powered

[Navado]

Binary package hint: gnome-power-manager

$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 8.10
Release: 8.10
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Power Manager 2.24.0
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Hardware: IBM ThinkPad R40
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I am using two batteries with the laptop - one internal and one additional that plugs into CD-ROM bay.
While running on battery power the additional battery discharges first (it's OK) but when it reaches critical low level the power manager hibernates the computer (correct action on low battery, also ok) instead of switching to the second battery (here is the problem, very annoying).

Also the time remaining is mostly correct while running on one battery (any one) but totally wrong when two of them installed. i.e. while running on the additional battery the time remaining indicator shows correct time for one battery but not overall time remaining. If the second battery removed time for the internal battery shown correctly, but if the second battery installed the remaining time shows some value that represents absolutely nothing.

another issue, that if second battery installed before the main while running on AC adapter the additional battery is not recognized with power manager and therefore not charged.

:~$ gnome-power-bugreport.sh
Distro version: DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=8.10
DISTRIB_CODENAME=intrepid
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 8.10"
Kernel version: 2.6.27-9-generic
g-p-m version: 2.24.0
HAL version: 0.5.11
System manufacturer: missing
System version: missing
System product: missing
AC adapter present: yes
Battery present: yes
Laptop panel present: yes
CPU scaling present: yes
Battery Information:
  battery.charge_level.current = 18850 (0x49a2) (int)
  battery.charge_level.design = 34560 (0x8700) (int)
  battery.charge_level.last_full = 19180 (0x4aec) (int)
  battery.charge_level.percentage = 98 (0x62) (int)
  battery.charge_level.rate = 2881 (0xb41) (int)
  battery.is_rechargeable = true (bool)
  battery.model = 'IBM-02K6645' (string)
  battery.present = true (bool)
  battery.rechargeable.is_charging = true (bool)
  battery.rechargeable.is_discharging = false (bool)
  battery.remaining_time = 412 (0x19c) (int)
  battery.reporting.current = 18850 (0x49a2) (int)
  battery.reporting.design = 34560 (0x8700) (int)
  battery.reporting.last_full = 19180 (0x4aec) (int)
  battery.reporting.rate = 2881 (0xb41) (int)
  battery.reporting.technology = 'Li-ion' (string)
  battery.reporting.unit = 'mWh' (string)
  battery.serial = ' 1057' (string)
  battery.technology = 'lithium-ion' (string)
  battery.type = 'primary' (string)
  battery.vendor = 'SANYO' (string)
  battery.voltage.current = 12528 (0x30f0) (int)
  battery.voltage.design = 10800 (0x2a30) (int)
  battery.voltage.unit = 'mV' (string)
  battery.charge_level.current = 60000 (0xea60) (int)
  battery.charge_level.design = 63360 (0xf780) (int)
  battery.charge_level.last_full = 60090 (0xeaba) (int)
  battery.charge_level.percentage = 99 (0x63) (int)
  battery.charge_level.rate = 0 (0x0) (int)
  battery.is_rechargeable = true (bool)
  battery.model = 'IBM-02K7054' (string)
  battery.present = true (bool)
  battery.rechargeable.is_charging = false (bool)
  battery.rechargeable.is_discharging = false (bool)
  battery.reporting.current = 60000 (0xea60) (int)
  battery.reporting.design = 63360 (0xf780) (int)
  battery.reporting.last_full = 60090 (0xeaba) (int)
  battery.reporting.rate = 0 (0x0) (int)
  battery.reporting.technology = 'Li-ion' (string)
  battery.reporting.unit = 'mWh' (string)
  battery.serial = ' 11' (string)
  battery.technology = 'lithium-ion' (string)
  battery.type = 'primary' (string)
  battery.vendor = 'FLT' (string)
  battery.voltage.current = 16618 (0x40ea) (int)
  battery.voltage.design = 14400 (0x3840) (int)
  battery.voltage.unit = 'mV' (string)
GNOME Power Manager Process Information:
navado 5160 0.0 1.3 32612 17908 ? Ss Feb03 0:03 gnome-power-manager
HAL Process Information:
111 4624 0.1 0.3 6312 4260 ? Ss Feb03 0:04 /usr/sbin/hald
root 4628 0.0 0.0 3364 1116 ? S Feb03 0:00 \_ hald-runner
root 4710 0.0 0.0 3436 1060 ? S Feb03 0:00 \_ hald-addon-input: Listening on /dev/input/event2 /dev/input/event5 /dev/input/event3 /dev/input/event4 /dev/input/event1 /dev/input/event9
root 4721 0.0 0.0 3448 1040 ? S Feb03 0:00 \_ /usr/lib/hal/hald-addon-cpufreq
111 4722 0.0 0.0 2296 944 ? S Feb03 0:00 \_ hald-addon-acpi: listening on acpid socket /var/run/acpid.socket

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering is this still an issue for you? Could you try to reproduce the same with Ubuntu 9.04? Thanks in advance.

[Navado (navado)]

I cannot reproduce this bug, still I switched to Debian Lenny, thaet works faster and more stable on my old computers. Sorry.

[xteejx (xteejx)]

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