Bug#470618: hal: Battery bay not detected on a laptop running with disconnected battery

2008-04-02 Thread Sam Morris
reassign 470618 kpowersave thanks Yes, a battery entry appears in the sysfs. And checking with hal-find-by-capability --capability battery the battery is correctly detected by hal too, without needing a hal restart. But the power-managers (both kde-guidance-power-manager and kpowersave) have

Bug#470618: hal: Battery bay not detected on a laptop running with disconnected battery

2008-04-02 Thread Daniele Benucci
2008/4/2, Sam Morris [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Could you clarify this for me? I understand that if you boot up without a battery inserted, the battery information is not present in the sysfs. I wonder what happens when you insert a battery after booting up; does an entry for it appear in the

Bug#470618: hal: Battery bay not detected on a laptop running with disconnected battery

2008-04-01 Thread Sam Morris
tag 470618 +moreinfo thanks Moreover, inserting the battery later requires a restart of the hal daemon (and of the power manager applet) to have the battery recognized. May this bug be related to the recently introduced patch to fix the reporting of two batteries, since sysfs does not

Bug#470618: [Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#470618: hal: Battery bay not detected on a laptop running with disconnected battery

2008-03-14 Thread Daniele Benucci
2008/3/12, Michael Biebl [EMAIL PROTECTED]: If sysfs is not updated, then that is a kernel bug. Reasoning more on the problem I've come to the same conclusion, also because if I power on the laptop with the battery and then remove it the state is properly detected, and, before the last

Bug#470618: hal: Battery bay not detected on a laptop running with disconnected battery

2008-03-12 Thread Daniele Benucci
Package: hal Version: 0.5.10+git20080301-1 Severity: important When a laptop is powered on without a battery inserted, hal does not detect the battery bay, so power managers can't suspect the computer supports a battery and consequently disabling battery-powered related options in their

Bug#470618: [Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#470618: hal: Battery bay not detected on a laptop running with disconnected battery

2008-03-12 Thread Michael Biebl
Daniele Benucci wrote: Package: hal Version: 0.5.10+git20080301-1 Severity: important When a laptop is powered on without a battery inserted, hal does not detect the battery bay, so power managers can't suspect the computer supports a battery and consequently disabling battery-powered