Package: powermgmt-base Version: 1.30 Followup-For: Bug #473629 Attached is a patch which makes /sbin/on_ac_power check /sys/class/power_supply/AC/online in addition to /proc/apci.
I only tested it on one computer but there it works with kernel 2.6.24-1-686 and 2.6.25-2-686. -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.25-2-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages powermgmt-base depends on: ii libc6 2.7-10 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii makedev 2.3.1-88 creates device files in /dev ii module-init-tools 3.4-1 tools for managing Linux kernel mo ii udev 0.114-2 /dev/ and hotplug management daemo powermgmt-base recommends no packages. -- no debconf information
--- /sbin/on_ac_power.old 2008-06-22 15:17:16.000000000 +0200 +++ /sbin/on_ac_power 2008-06-22 15:22:52.000000000 +0200 @@ -14,6 +14,12 @@ set -e # ACPI +# Use the new kernel /sys interface if available. +if [ -f /sys/class/power_supply/AC/online ]; then + grep --quiet '^0$' /sys/class/power_supply/AC/online && exit 1 + grep --quiet '^1$' /sys/class/power_supply/AC/online && exit 0 +fi + # # This algorithm is complicated by the possibility of multiple AC # adapters. We scan the ac_adapter directory looking for adapters
