[Bug 79645] Gnome Power Manager reports power in steps

[Alveric]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: hal

When I was using Ubuntu 6.06 and my laptop (Acer
Travelmate 4101LMi) was running on battery power the Gnome Power Manager 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. These numbers do not correlate with the figures I get from running acpi in the shell.

I have corresponded with the g-p-m list and have been informed this
comes down to HAL and that I need to get HAL 0.5.8 (which is not in the
ubuntu repositories).

I have been recommended to point ubuntu at the commit ID which is

commit 9c99fc03fbac6380032a6678c641a76ef02ad834

and ask that HAL in the repositories be updated.

Thanks,

Al.

** Affects: hal (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: Unconfirmed

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Gnome Power Manager reports power in steps
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