Re: [Bug 120258] Re: Laptop Battery Time Remaining Outrageously Inaccurate

2009-12-28 Thread Kevin Demarest
I haven't found a fix. Closest thing would be a few perl scripts that I came across and have tried running/modifying. But they aren't a fix, at least I wouldn't consider them one. On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 6:03 AM, llawwehttam wrote: > I have just installed 9.10 karmic and have the bug too. Anyo

[Bug 120258] Re: Laptop Battery Time Remaining Outrageously Inaccurate

2009-12-12 Thread Kevin Demarest
Just learned draining a L-ion battery completely will permanently damage the battery's capacity. I won't be purchasing a new battery until I can be certain that gnome-power-manager will provide the proper warnings/actions to prevent damage to a new battery. I have looked at the gnome-power-manage

[Bug 481576] Re: Action on critical battery is not triggered - gnome-power-manager

2009-12-01 Thread Kevin Demarest
I'm fairly certain that I've experienced this problem since Gutsy. I'm running Jaunty now and still have the problem. Incidentally, this bug should be considered critical. Apparently, draining a Li-on battery completely kills the battery (mine only has 9.8% of it's original capacity). I've chec

[Bug 120258] Re: Laptop Battery Time Remaining Outrageously Inaccurate

2009-11-29 Thread Kevin Demarest
I'm running a toshiba u305-s7448. -- Laptop Battery Time Remaining Outrageously Inaccurate https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/120258 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-power-manager in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing li

[Bug 120258] Re: Laptop Battery Time Remaining Outrageously Inaccurate

2009-11-29 Thread Kevin Demarest
I get about 46 minutes from my 5200mAh battery. I charged it until the charge light indicated it was fully charged, then let the battery completely run down until the system powered off. Typing acpi at the command line doesn't report the % full accurately, but there is a problem with the battery

[Bug 119861] Re: error on playing swf

2009-11-20 Thread Kevin Demarest
I have the same problem with "GStreamer encountered a general supporting library error". I also can't connect to BBC. Someone in #ubuntu told me to do sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras. Didn't fix the problem, however. -- error on playing swf https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/119861