Description of problem: Gnome power manager does not alert when the battery is going to or is close to dieing. I know the settings are offered as the following: Running on Battery -> Actions: "When battery power critical:" a. Do Nothing b. Suspend c. Hibernate d. Shutdown As Suspend and Hibernate don't work on my latop (another issue,) I have set the action to "Do Nothing". Some would say "Do Nothing" is exactly that. Well either "Do Nothing" needs to at least notify the user of a pending power loss or there needs to be another Action that is "Notify User" or something. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): gnome-power-manager-2.14.3-1 How reproducible: Always. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Start work and get involved with projects while on battery power at your local wifi hot spot. 2. Don't mouse over the meter every minute. 3. Lose power, work, etc. when the battery dies on you. Actual results: Power is lost and laptop powers off. Expected results: At minimal, a notification that power levels are critical with enough time to plug in laptop. Additional info: Gnome Power Manager tells me when my battery is charged. Nice feature. Why does it not tell me when my battery needs to be charged? The good looking notification that tells me that my battery is charged should also be used to warn me that the battery is dieing and I need to charge it before a power loss occurs. Potentially have a configurable setting for at which percent the notification(s) appear.
It should already warn you at least twice. What percentage and time remaining does your laptop "die" on you?
I have seen it down to 1-5% when I do manage to catch it. It seems to die between 1-3%. My laptop has a little charging LED (in a poor place) that will flash when the computer knows it will die and when it is flashing (when I do notice) the charge is listed between 1-5%.
I just watched it closely this time. gnome-power-manager reported 0% and still I got no notification.
But what *time* did g-p-m report?
It does not give a time for me. Only a percent. It does give a time until charge will be complete.
Sounds like you have a broken bios. Can you try setting /apps/gnome-power-manager/use_time_for_policy to false using gconf-editor please.
I tried this. Failed on me twice now. Not fun. Anything else to try? This really needs to be fixed.
Perhaps you could try FC6 - 2.14.x is very old, and 2.16.x solves many bugs. FC6 also has a HAL with a bucketload more fixes in than FC5. I would say this is the best option if you want it to work out of the box without hacking about too much.
My latop has been updated to FC6 since release. Sorry I didn't mention that. 2.6.18-1.2849.fc6
this behavior is the same on my new sony vaio with a fresh install of FC6 immediately when i unplug the laptop after sitting for days charging i'll get a message like "power low, you have approximately 13 minutes of remaining battery life (96%). plug in your ac power cable to avoid loing data" this happens almost instantly upon removal of the ac cable. message me if further information is required. thanks for your time and effort in this matter.
I got my first ever notification that my battery was going to die. I'll test it some more and report again. gnome-power-manager-2.16.0-4.fc6 2.6.19-1.2895.fc6
Everything has been working since the 2.6.19-1.2895.fc6 kernel.