I just noticed that I'm affected by the same problem. I also have a HP pavilion laptop. As the OP said, removing and replacing the battery with the power cord connected resets the battery type to the correct Li-Ion.
Sys info: HP dv5-1190eo Ubuntu 10.04 32-bit HAL 0.5.14-0ubuntu6 gnome-power-manager 2.30.0-0ubuntu1 -- Battery technology type resets to NiMH https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/556942 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
