After digging deeper into hal and it's scripts I found the root cause
for the problem in
hal (0.5.10-5ubuntu2) hardy; urgency=low
* debian/patches/88_change_pm_quirk_policy.patch: Change default pm
quirk policy to match previous Ubuntu behaviour.
-- Matthew Garrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> S
Real root cause found in ubuntu specific hal patch
** Also affects: hal (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Changed in: gnome-power-manager (Ubuntu)
Status: Incomplete => Invalid
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[Hardy] gnome-power-manager doesn't use pm-utils quirks
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bug
Thanks for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu
better. Could you please attach the resulting log file of: gnome-power-
bugreport.sh &> gpm.log to the report? You might also want to take a
look to the Debugging instructions located at
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingGNOME
