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gnome-power-manager package

battery doesn't load on thinkpad z61m

Bug #88450 reported by Frank
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gnome-power-manager (Ubuntu)
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Undecided
Chris Rose

Bug Description

Binary package hint: gnome-power-manager

I've installed Feisty Fawn Herd4 on a Thinkpad Z61m. The gnome-battery applet don't show more than 46% of charging and the battery doesn't charge. After installing tp-smapi from source (Version 0.30) there was no change in this behavior. If I unplug the cable the battery will be discharged normally, but only from 46% to 0%. Additionally, for installing tp-smapi I had to install linux-source, but the package will be installed but will not unpacked. I have do this manually. Furthermore are symlink to /usr/lib/modules is not being created.

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Chris Rose (chris-vault5) wrote :

Thank you for your bug report. What are the contents of these two files?

/sys/devices/platform/smapi/BAT0/start_charge_thresh
/sys/devices/platform/smapi/BAT0/stop_charge_thresh

Changed in gnome-power-manager:
status: Unconfirmed → Needs Info
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Frank (frank-schaeffer) wrote :

start_charge_thresh 40
stop_charge_thresh 70

Thank your for quick response. Please mark this bug-report as "needs testing" because at the moment it is functional. I've done a total discharging and after rebooting. It seems that the battery is charged up to the stop_charge_threshold. So, it's displayed at the gnome-applet. I will have to monitoring this and test the real "current" status.

Thanks again for your response and cooperativeness

Frank

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Frank (frank-schaeffer) wrote : Re: [Bug 88450] Re: battery doesn't load on thinkpad z61m

Am Wed, 28 Feb 2007 12:02:55 -0000
schrieb Chris Rose <email address hidden>:

> Thank you for your bug report. What are the contents of these two
> files?
>
> /sys/devices/platform/smapi/BAT0/start_charge_thresh
> /sys/devices/platform/smapi/BAT0/stop_charge_thresh
>
>
> ** Changed in: gnome-power-manager (Ubuntu)
> Status: Unconfirmed => Needs Info
>
Hello Chris,

start_charge_thresh 40
stop_charge_thresh 70

Thank your for quick response. Please mark this bug-report as "needs
testing" because at the moment it is functional. I've done a total
discharging and after rebooting. It seems that the battery is charged
up to the stop_charge_threshold. So, it's displayed at the
gnome-applet. I will have to monitoring this and test the real
"current" status.

Thanks again for your response and cooperativeness

Frank

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Chris Rose (chris-vault5) wrote :

Great. Feel free to reopen this bug if you think it is not working as it should be.

Changed in gnome-power-manager:
status: Needs Info → Rejected
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Frank (frank-schaeffer) wrote :

After testing, I established an misbehaviour. The battery is charging and discharging now correctly, but the instructions given to tp-smapi via command-line:

     sudo -s
     password
    # echo 40 > /sys/devices/platform/smapi/BAT0/start_charge_thresh
    # echo 70 > /sys/devices/platform/smapi/BAT0/stop_charge_thresh

are being ignored after a reboot and "cat /sys/devices/platform/smapi/BAT0/*_charge_thresh" shows 96 and 100, respectively. So the battery will be charged up to 100% instead of 70%

TP_Smapi iis added to /etc/modules and should load correctly.
I think it's not a real bug, but rather stupidity by myself, but on Edgy Eft the above-mentioned approach was acting

Best regards

Frank

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Frank (frank-schaeffer) wrote :

Am Wed, 28 Feb 2007 21:24:16 -0000
schrieb Chris Rose <email address hidden>:

> Great. Feel free to reopen this bug if you think it is not working as
> it should be.
>
> ** Changed in: gnome-power-manager (Ubuntu)
> Status: Needs Info => Rejected
>
Dear Chris,

After testing, I established an misbehaviour. The battery is charging
and discharging now correctly, but the instructions given to tp-smapi
via command-line:

     sudo -s
     password
    # echo 40 > /sys/devices/platform/smapi/BAT0/start_charge_thresh
    # echo 70 > /sys/devices/platform/smapi/BAT0/stop_charge_thresh

are being ignored after a reboot and
"cat /sys/devices/platform/smapi/BAT0/*_charge_thresh" shows 96 and
100, respectively. So the battery will be charged up to 100% instead of
70%

TP_Smapi iis added to /etc/modules and should load correctly.
I think it's not a real bug, but rather stupidity by myself, but on
Edgy Eft the above-mentioned approach was acting

Best regards

Frank

Frank (frank-schaeffer)
Changed in gnome-power-manager:
assignee: nobody → chris-rose
status: Rejected → Unconfirmed
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Chris Rose (chris-vault5) wrote :

You can put these echo commands into /etc/rc.local to have them run every time you boot your laptop.

I am rejecting this bug because it is in software that we do not ship (you installed from source). Thank you for helping to make Ubuntu better.

Changed in gnome-power-manager:
status: Unconfirmed → Rejected
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