g-p-m shows battery at 0% on wireless mouse

What does "lshal | grep battery" say when it reports 0%?

Attached the output of lshal|grep battery in non working mode

battery.charge_level.current is missing... all we need to do now if to work out why... I suspect this is a hal csr addon problem.

Hi Mikael, What versions of various packages do you have installed? Can you paste the output of:

  $ dpkg -l | awk '/^ii.*(linux-image|acpi-support|hal|udev|gnome-power-manager)/{print $2,$3}'

and check whether the battery module is loaded:

  $ /sbin/lsmod | grep battery

and check what the ACPI battery output is:

  $ grep . -r /proc/acpi/battery/

Many Thanks,

BAT0 is this laptops battery. And there is no difference in the output when it works and when it isn't.

$ dpkg -l | awk '/^ii.*(linux-image|acpi-support|hal|udev|gnome-power-manager)/{print $2,$3}'
acpi-support 0.67
gnome-power-manager 2.13.93-0ubuntu4
hal 0.5.7-1ubuntu10
hal-device-manager 0.5.7-1ubuntu10
libhal-storage1 0.5.7-1ubuntu10
libhal1 0.5.7-1ubuntu10
linux-image-2.6.15-19-686 2.6.15-19.29
linux-image-686 2.6.15.18
udev 079-0ubuntu23

$ /sbin/lsmod | grep battery
battery 9988 1 acpi_sbs

$ grep . -r /proc/acpi/battery/
/proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/alarm:alarm: 3240 mWh
/proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/state:present: yes
/proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/state:capacity state: ok
/proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/state:charging state: charging
/proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/state:present rate: 3824 mW
/proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/state:remaining capacity: 59040 mWh
/proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/state:present voltage: 16776 mV
/proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/info:present: yes
/proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/info:design capacity: 64800 mWh
/proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/info:last full capacity: 59340 mWh
/proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/info:battery technology: rechargeable
/proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/info:design voltage: 14400 mV
/proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/info:design capacity warning: 3240 mWh
/proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/info:design capacity low: 648 mWh
/proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/info:capacity granularity 1: 1 mWh
/proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/info:capacity granularity 2: 1 mWh
/proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/info:model number: IBM-92P1080
/proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/info:serial number: 216
/proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/info:battery type: LION
/proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/info:OEM info: SANYO

Does 2.14.1 fix the issue for you?

I can only find g-p-m 2.14.0-1 so I presume thats what you meant. But sadly that doesn't fix the problem.

This is a Logitech LX 5 which I forgot to tell earlier.

I have the same problem.

I have a Logitech Wireless Laptop Mouse.

I noticed that if I plug the mouse reciever in before turning on my laptop, it displays the proper battery level. It's only when the computer is already on and I plug in the mouse that I have this problem.

sorry, redundant post!

You need to update to at least 2.14.1

Sadly, I am running 2.14.1.

Where can I find 2.14.1? I can't find it in the archives[0].
Should I try to compile from source?

[0]: http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/g/gnome-power-manager/

Wow. My head is not screwed on properly today. I have GNOME 2.14.1, but g-p-m is still only 2.14.0.

Download it here:
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gnome-power-manager/2.14/
and follow the Ubuntu adivce here:
http://www.gnome.org/projects/gnome-power-manager/packages.html

I haven't compiled 2.14.1 myself, because I don't know how (still kinda new to linux).

Have you tried compiling the new version? I run into an error: the compiler complains that i'm missing the packages glib-2.0 and gobject-20, but they aren't in the repos.

Will a newer version of g-p-m be put in the repos anytime soon?

This is kind of fixed for me in 2.14.3-0ubuntu1. After I insert the mouse, it shows the mouse at 0%, but after about 5min it shows the correct value.

Thats as good as you are going to get until hal is fixed, sorry.

This bug was reported a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering is this still an issue? Thanks in advance.

Yeah, it working correctly now. And has for a while. Sorry for not closing this bug sooner.