Re: [gpm] Battery life display and Screen brightness in Gnome Power Manager
- From: Richard Hughes <hughsient gmail com>
- To: Damian Wardingley <dwardingley googlemail com>
- Cc: gnome-power-manager-list gnome org
- Subject: Re: [gpm] Battery life display and Screen brightness in Gnome Power Manager
- Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2007 17:08:58 +0000
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.
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