Re: [gpm] Battery life display and Screen brightness in Gnome Power Manager

[Richard Hughes <hughsient gmail com>]

On Thu, 2007-01-11 at 20:45 +0000, Damian Wardingley wrote:

Sorry for the delay, just got back.

> 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.

Sounds like an ACPI problem... what does:

lshal | grep battery

print when you are booted up?

> 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.

What does;

lshal | grep laptop_panel
and
ls /proc/acpi/*/*

print?

Thanks.

Richard.