HAL battery status, and thus Gnome and KDE battery monitor broken in edgy
Bug #63997 reported by
Andrew Paulin
This bug report is a duplicate of:
Bug #66025: gnome-power-manager does not update often enough, only updates every 25% of battery charge.
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Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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hal (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Medium
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Bug Description
Binary package hint: hal
In Edgy, the power meter does not report the battery life correctly at all, in either gnome or kde. It will show plugged/charging and approximate battery (100/50/33/0), but not exact life, nor accurate time. If I type acpi in a console, it reports accurate battery life. My laptop is an Acer Aspire 3003LCi (moblie sempron 754)
Changed in gnome-power-manager: | |
importance: | Undecided → Medium |
status: | Unconfirmed → Confirmed |
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hello Andrew,
Yes, the g-p-m applet icon is able to display only significant status.
as you said:
..It will show plugged/charging and approximate battery (100/50/33/0)..
if you point your mouse over the gpm applet icon you should be able to see the right amount of time you have of battery life.
if `acpi` results will different from the g-p-m results, this is an HAL bug.