I am currently using 10.04 and I have set the power manager to hibernate when the battery is critically low. When I get the warning that my battery is critically low, it says that it will soon hibernate, but after about 10 seconds it just cuts out (not shutdown or anything else). Is there a way to change the critical level or is it some other issue?
I have a bluetooth mouse connected to my laptop.
Much to my delight (I posted the suggestion!) the mouses battery is now displayed along side the laptop's battery.
Unfortunately is is named simply "battery" in the drop down and "Laptop battery" once the power statistics windows is opened.
I'm using Ubuntu 12.10 with Gnome 3.6 on a Dell Inspiron N5010 laptop, but I have a problem with the power handling/battery. As soon as I disconnect my charger, the battery starts discharging from an indication of 51% and it lasts for only 1 hour. Compared two hours in Windows 7, this is a major difference.
I've installed Jupiter and I don't see any change.
Hi there,
I am running Ubuntu 9.04 on a Toshiba laptop and having trouble getting it to suspend when idle.
In system -> preferences -> power management, under the 'battery power' tab I have set it to 'put computer to sleep when inactive for 11 minutes'.
My application running on a laptop-like device is controlling battery status on its own but when laptop battery is critically low Gnome Power Management message box appears:
As my GUI style is totally different I would like to permanently disable / uninstall this Gnome feature. How to achieve this ?
EDIT:
I am on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
Ubuntu 12.04 64bit refuses to hibernate when battery is critically low. Instead it does a complete shutdown which is unnecessary and can cause loss of data.
I have enabled Hibernate (pm-hibernate) on following the common instructions I tested pm-hibernate it is works fine when run manually.
I have set my power options to hibernate "When Power is Critically Low".
I am using Uubntu 12.04, and I've noticed that the computer reboots instead of suspending when the battery is critically low. It appears that this only happens when my laptop is unplugged. After rebooting once, the computers keeps rebooting until it is either plugged in or until it loses power. What is the usual cause of this issue, and how can it be resolved?
New to Ubuntu and am liking it so far except for an issue with power/ battery management. After unplugging my netbook I often but not always get a critically low batterylife message and ubuntu proceeds to shutdown. This seems to happen most often after it has been plugged in for a while and the battery is definitely fully charged.
I want to give some life to my old laptop, and recalibrate the battery (old now).
When reading around on forums, the common info is to turn on the PC, drain the batt, even from Bios, and then recharge batt without having the PC on, and repeat cycle until satisfied.
I hope there is a way to soft up this via ACPI without the need to actually let the PC die out of misery.
I was hoping for a program t
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