<div>Hi Xandros,</div>
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<div>Thanks for your answer. Looks promising. I will give it a try, although I have to spend a whole day around my 9 cell batter to charge it and discharge it 3 times. I'll give it some heavy discharge boost with some gaming then.... :).</div>
<div> By the way in DMESG I receive messages from ACPI but when running the command acpi -b the shell tels me it is not being installed. Do I need to install only the command acpi or it is a part of some tools-kit I am missing. Yeah silly question but I do not know the answer :). </div>
<div>And does acpi -b give the same output as </div>
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<div>cat /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/state</div>
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<div>sudo Greetings, </div>
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<div>Tish</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">2009/8/24 Xandros Pilosa <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:folivora.pilosa@gmail.com">folivora.pilosa@gmail.com</a>></span><br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Xandros Pilosa pravi:<br>
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<div class="h5">> tish pravi:<br>>> Hello,<br>>> I am experiencing the following issues. The computer does<br>>> hibernate/suspend as the battery reaches critical level, instead it just<br>>> shutdowns uncleanly. I have tried all possible options in gnome power<br>
>> management-shutdown,hibernate,suspend etc .<br>>><br>>> I understand the difference b/n hibernate and suspend and my swap file<br>>> is just fine. Hibernation, suspend and other power related options work<br>
>> when being called. I am running jaunty on Dell XPS m1530. It is a clean<br>>> installation of Jaunty with all the released updates till now.<br>>> I appreciate your help.<br>>><br>>> Tish<br>
>><br>>><br>><br>> Hello,<br>> relevant bug report (long tailed) is<br>> <a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/135548" target="_blank">https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/135548</a><br>><br>> Please, do add your comment.<br>
><br>> Anyway, I managed to solve this problem some time ago by this procedure:<br>><br>> * let the gnome-power-manager create profile of you battery by<br>> allowing fully charged battery to discharge at least 3 times in<br>
> the same session. That means, you first charge your battery<br>> until it is full, then unplug the AC cord and let it discharge<br>> until your battery indicator shows red colour and let's say 5%<br>
> of remaining power.(Since at this point you cannot trust<br>> gnome-power-manager applet, you can check the battery status<br>> with "acpi -b" command.) Then plug the AC cord back in and fully<br>
> charge again. As mentioned, repeat this at least 3 times and<br>> keep the session open all the time (do not turn off your<br>> machine, nor suspend / hibernate or log out).<br>> * In addition to that, I increased registry threshold values with<br>
> gconf-editor (Programs -> System tools ->) in following<br>> keys: /apps/gnome-power-manager/thresholds/time_action --> 300<br>> and /apps/gnome-power-manager/thresholds/time_critical --> 600<br>
> (values are in seconds)<br>><br>> Regards<br>><br>><br>><br><br></div></div>IMPORTANT addition:<br><br>to check, if the battery profile is reliable enough:<br><a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-power-manager/+bug/135548/comments/100" target="_blank">https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-power-manager/+bug/135548/comments/100</a><br>
from Joakim Andersson:<br><br>"... You can check the progress by right clicking g-p-m in the system<br>tray, selecting "power history" and then in that box (near the bottom),<br>select "discharge time accuracy profile". when the average value of that<br>
graph is over 40%, stuff will start working..."<br><br>Take care<br>
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