[Bug 629258] Re: Battery life estimation never comes around

2010-11-29 Thread Philip Guyton
I have just come across this problem again with another machine (my previous post #107 was concerning a Compaq Presario A900 (bios f.33) ) This time it is with an HP Pavilion dv8000. again whilst on battery:- cat /sys/class/power_supply/BAT1/current_now 0 so no drain info available so this time I

[Bug 629258] Re: Battery life estimation never comes around

2010-11-03 Thread Philip Guyton
I have this "Laptop battery (estimating..)" on battery left click. Doesn't change - Compaq Presario A900 (bios f.33) whilst on battery cat /sys/class/power_supply/BAT0/current_now 0 cat /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/state present: yes capacity state: ok charging state:

[Bug 491483] Re: Since failsafe-x was enabled in karmic it starts if gdm is disabled and kdm is used. (low graphics mode error)

2009-12-08 Thread Philip Guyton
I also have just tried out the proposed gdm fix and am all up and running again. Thanks to all who have helped with this one. My situation was Ubuntu install where I added kubuntu-desktop and chose kdm, hence gdm and kdm co-resident. As laptop had intel graphics I got as others with intel graphi