Dell Mini 9 users, what firmware versions are you running? Mine is A04.
Is anyone running the most recent (A07, May 2011)? Thanks.
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BIOS A05 in particular is reputed to fix many battery problems.
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Oneiric displays 'Laptop battery critically low' message after AC is
I finally found a workaround in this thread:
http://ubuntuforums.org//showthread.php?t=1866533 . Specifically,
$ gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power 'use-time-for-
policy' 'false'
made it possible to run my netbook for several minutes without AC (I
didn't bother trying longer),
Bishnu, thanks for the suggestion. Your workaround didn't work for me,
whether my netbook was configured to hibernate or shut down on low
power. (Dell Inspiron 910 / Dell Mini 9.) The system powered down within
30 seconds even when I closed the pop up with the cross button. I'm glad
someone has
Possible workaround: I tested 10.04 LTS and it is indeed free of this
bug. Creating a dual-boot 11.10/10.04 machine is an option.
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Oneiric
The problem affects me gravely enough that I'm planning to downgrade to
10.04 unless this issue is elevated. It's difficult to credit that a bug
that turns laptops into desktops has been assigned an importance of Low.
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My problem is also on a Dell Mini 9 with 11.10. There is a command-line
workaround at http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1721757, but I
have found it only works intermittently.
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