This is the same that happens to me. In particular:
When I switch on my computer using only the battery, the Battery monitor
on the tray is showing ALWAYS that the battery is fully charged.
However, making a simple click onto the monitor icon, it shows a popup
with the actual percentage of remaining battery. In this situation, if I
do not verify frequently the remaining power, the computer
just runs out of battery and halts abruptly. When restarting, I had
to fscheck the filesystems. This is very dangerous.
However, I found a "trick" while this issue is not successfully addressed.
All this changes when I simply connect the PC
to the power (just less than a second) and the monitor changes:
* A popup shows that the the battery is discharging, as well as the remaining battery percentage and the time.
* The tray icon is showing that the battery is discharging.
* The popup information when click the icon remains the same than before.
In this situation, the battery monitor shows 2 alerts: the first one
some time before running out of battery (about 9% of battery) and the
second one when only 1-2% of battery remains. In both cases, the popup
alert shows correctly the percentage of battery, but do not show the
proper remaining time (just "unknown remaining time" or so). In
contrast, in this case, the computer switch off normally (as I have set
up in the settings).
All these problems appeared when upgrading to Karmic. In the previous
ubuntu release, all worked really fine.
*** What do I expect?
The correct operation of the battery monitor, showing the correct remaining time and percentage of the battery, working always correctly, independently of whether the power is connected to the computer or not.
Hello all,
This is the same that happens to me. In particular:
When I switch on my computer using only the battery, the Battery monitor
on the tray is showing ALWAYS that the battery is fully charged.
However, making a simple click onto the monitor icon, it shows a popup
with the actual percentage of remaining battery. In this situation, if I
do not verify frequently the remaining power, the computer
just runs out of battery and halts abruptly. When restarting, I had
to fscheck the filesystems. This is very dangerous.
However, I found a "trick" while this issue is not successfully addressed.
All this changes when I simply connect the PC
to the power (just less than a second) and the monitor changes:
* A popup shows that the the battery is discharging, as well as the remaining battery percentage and the time.
* The tray icon is showing that the battery is discharging.
* The popup information when click the icon remains the same than before.
In this situation, the battery monitor shows 2 alerts: the first one
some time before running out of battery (about 9% of battery) and the
second one when only 1-2% of battery remains. In both cases, the popup
alert shows correctly the percentage of battery, but do not show the
proper remaining time (just "unknown remaining time" or so). In
contrast, in this case, the computer switch off normally (as I have set
up in the settings).
All these problems appeared when upgrading to Karmic. In the previous
ubuntu release, all worked really fine.
My hardware settings are as follows (sudo lshw):
description: Notebook 865A-86F0- 8786-881C88B289 3E
description: BIOS
capabilities: pci upgrade shadowing cdboot bootselect socketedrom edd int13floppynec int13floppytoshiba int13floppy360 int13floppy1200 int13floppy720 int13floppy2880 int9keyboard int10video acpi usb
description: CPU 0000-0000- 0000-0000
capabilities: fpu fpu_exception wp vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe nx x86-64 constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts pni dtes64 monitor ds_cpl est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm sse4_1 xsave lahf_lm cpufreq
configuration : id=0
description: Host bridge
descriptio n: PCI bridge
product: Mobile 4 Series Chipset PCI Express Graphics Port
physical id: 1
version: 07
capabiliti es: pci pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list
configurat ion: driver= pcieport- driver
resources: irq:24 ioport: 5000(size= 4096) memory: d0000000- d2ffffff ioport: c0000000( size=268435456)
description: VGA compatible controller
product: G98 [GeForce 9300M GS]
vendor: nVidia Corporation
physical id: 0
version: a1
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list rom
configuration: driver=nvidia latency=0
resources: irq:16 memory: d2000000- d2ffffff memory: c0000000- cfffffff( prefetchable) memory: d0000000- d1ffffff ioport: 5000(size= 128)
product: HP Pavilion dv3500 Notebook PC
vendor: Hewlett-Packard
version: F.15
serial: CNU9286D62
width: 32 bits
capabilities: smbios-2.4 dmi-2.4
configuration: boot=normal chassis=notebook uuid=801A8556-
*-core
description: Motherboard
product: 1505
vendor: Inventec
physical id: 0
version: KBC Version 13.14
serial: Base Board Serial Number
slot: Base Board Chassis Location
*-firmware
vendor: Hewlett-Packard
physical id: 0
version: F.15 (05/04/2009)
size: 1MiB
*-cpu
product: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T6400 @ 2.00GHz
vendor: Intel Corp.
physical id: 12
bus info: cpu@0
version: 6.7.10
serial: 0001-067A-
slot: CPU
size: 1200MHz
capacity: 2GHz
width: 64 bits
clock: 800MHz
*-pci
product: Mobile 4 Series Chipset Memory Controller Hub
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 100
bus info: pci@0000:00:00.0
version: 07
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
*-pci:0
vendor: Intel Corporation
bus info: pci@0000:00:01.0
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
*-display
bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
....
*-power UNCLAIMED
description: OEM_Define1
product: OEM_Define4
vendor: OEM_Define2
physical id: 1
version: OEM_Define5
serial: OEM_Define2
capacity: 75mWh
*** lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 9.10
Release: 9.10
*** apt-cache policy gnome-power-manager manager: cat.archive. ubuntu. com karmic/main Packages dpkg/status
gnome-power-
Instal·lat: 2.28.1-0ubuntu1
Candidat: 2.28.1-0ubuntu1
Taula de versió:
*** 2.28.1-0ubuntu1 0
500 http://
100 /var/lib/
*** What do I expect?
The correct operation of the battery monitor, showing the correct remaining time and percentage of the battery, working always correctly, independently of whether the power is connected to the computer or not.