Dr. David Kirkby wrote:
>> David,
>>
>> So the new hald binary fixed your battery monitor
>> issues?
> 
> Some of them. I still have two issues. 
> 
> 1) It is very slow to detect changes. Under Vista, the removal of a battery 
> or mains power is detect immediately. It takes about 30s on here. Your 
> 'evprint' program sees the changes immediatly, but the monitor on gnome does 
> not. 
> 

I don't see this issue on the Sony Vaio I have.  Check prstat to see if
you see anything interesting.

> 2) The monitor does not detect the battery being removed, so it will indicate 
> the battery is 75% charged (or whatever figure it last was), hours after the 
> battery has been removed. 
> 

Were there events generated by evprint when the battery was removed?

> Some time back, before the issue of panics or the monitor not working at all, 
> I did notice the monitor would indicate the battery had only one minute left, 
> but the laptop would run for perhaps 10 minutes before it powered off. Is 
> there some sort of "safety factor" which is a bit too pessimistic? 
>> hal cannot cause a panic.  Do you have the stack
>> trace?

It's an estimate and it also depends on the condition of the battery.
I think GPM may have a better estimate.

Phi

>>
>> Phi
> 
> I was not suggesting hal was the source of the panic. There was another 
> thread (or perhaps this one in the numerous places it has been split), where 
> someone was asking if really the acpi issue was really masking some other 
> issue which was affecting Sony laptops. 
> 
> I've got no record of the issue under b93. It just paniced a couple of times, 
> I re-wrote the DVD and it worked. 
> 
> Dave
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