Hello there! Relative newbie with a couple of questions, if someone has a spare minute. First question: When I was using Ubuntu 6.06 and my laptop (Acer Travelmate 4101LMi) was running on battery power the GPM battery indicator gave "sensible" readings for battery percentage left and time to last, which changed when I did things like turn off wireless or dim the screen. However, I recently upgraded to Ubuntu 6.10 and the battery indicator now goes straight to "66% battery life" as soon as the machine boots up, then after a while drops to "33%" then to zero. Second question: in the screenshots for GPM there is a screen brightness slider in the Preferences dialogs. I don't have this. In the FAQ it mentions this as happening with an IBM laptop but do I need to do something similar? Ubuntu 6.10 has the 2.6.17 kernel, I think. I would appreciate any assistance. Thanks in advance, Damian
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