Sometimes a BIOS firmware update solve these types of problems, a update can be more ACPI-compatible. With the time, Linux kernel is incorporating some BIOS tasks and fixing some bugs on some of these BIOS. Sometimes Linux or Fedora are innocents :) Best regards. On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 8:46 AM, Ankur Sinha <sanjay.ankur@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > hey, > > I've had this issue for quite a while now. > > I have a HP pavilion laptop that runs a Fedora 12 (up to date) and vista > (the original that came with the laptop). I'm using GNOME as of now. > > When a power cut occurs, the power applet continues to show the adapter > plugged in,and battery at 100%. This restrains my system from > hibernating etc correctly, or even dimming display when ac power is > removed. > > I've already filed a bug here. > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=554363 > > To confirm that there is indeed a bug, I've checked using acpi-tool, > htop all of which give correct values of battery and that there is no ac > power attached. > > As the bugreport says, killing /usr/libexec/devkit-power-daemon and re > running it corrects the status, however it's irritating to have to do > this every time a power cut occurs (if im around that is). > > Can someone think of a fix or at least a work around for the time > being? > -- > regards, > Ankur -- _______________________________ Allann J. O. Silva "I received the fundamentals of my education in school, but that was not enough. My real education, the superstructure, the details, the true architecture, I got out of the public library. For an impoverished child whose family could not afford to buy books, the library was the open door to wonder and achievement, and I can never be sufficiently grateful that I had the wit to charge through that door and make the most of it." (from I. Asimov, 1994) -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
