I am also having the same problem on an HP dv-3500 series laptop. It doesn't appear that acpi is correctly determining the status. I am seeing the same thing as Scott:
$ acpi -ab Battery 0: Unknown, 82% Adapter 0: off-line -- [Karmic] power management icon says laptop is connected to power when it isn't https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/393008 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
