GNOME power management doesn't notice my laptop battery discharge

I can use my laptop for an hour (AC unplugged), and the battery is still at 98% or so, according to the GNOME battery applet.
It's a Toshiba U400-124, with 4 cell (I think) battery, so only lasts about 2-2.5 hours anyway.
The power stats program in GNOME shows my battery charging OK, but then gives weird stats like 'time until charged: 3.6minutes', just after I've plugged it in.
(Suspend and hibernate work fine.)
Has anyone seen a similar thing before? Or can anyone point me in the right direction to see where the problem is?
I have no idea where to start looking.
Thanks.

Also as a really quick fix for this until you solve the problem (I'm having the same issue) you can right click on the top panel and select 'Add to panel' and select battery charge monitor. For me this added another battery monitor which as far as I can tell is reporting the correct info (something else than 100%).
Good luck and have a nice day.

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WTF?

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org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power lid-close-ac-action 'blank'
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pablox wrote:
hoschi wrote:
Nope. Found it five minutes ago. My shame! Thank you
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Sy … th_systemd
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I have a wireless device using the ipw2200 module. I have always found it extremely annoying that gnome-power-manager asks NetworkManager to sleep before suspending, since, first of all, the ipw2200 module doesn't need to be unloaded and, secondly, because I always have to wait the extra few seconds it takes for NM to send the dhcp request after resuming. I made a patch that adds an option to turn the NM-sleep call on or off via a gconf entry (networkmanager_sleep). The patch has been accepted upstream and included in CVS. However, I've made a patch that applies cleanly to gnome-power-manager 2.16.1 as well. Here it is:
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+++ gnome-power-manager-2.16.1-new/data/gnome-power-manager.schemas.in 2006-10-05 11:56:10.000000000 +0200
@@ -571,6 +571,17 @@
<long>This is the laptop panel screen brightness used when the session is idle. Only valid when use_time_for_policy is true.</long>
</locale>
</schema>
+ <schema>
+ <key>/schemas/apps/gnome-power-manager/networkmanager_sleep</key>
+ <applyto>/apps/gnome-power-manager/networkmanager_sleep</applyto>
+ <owner>gnome-power-manager</owner>
+ <type>bool</type>
+ <default>true</default>
+ <locale>
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+ <long>Chooses whether Networkmanager should disconnect from the network before suspending.</long>
+ </locale>
+ </schema>
</schemalist>
</gconfschemafile>
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--- gnome-power-manager-2.16.1/src/gpm-manager.c 2006-09-17 22:33:51.000000000 +0200
+++ gnome-power-manager-2.16.1-new/src/gpm-manager.c 2006-10-05 12:03:22.000000000 +0200
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gboolean allowed;
gboolean ret;
gboolean do_lock;
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gpm_manager_allowed_hibernate (manager, &allowed, NULL);
@@ -1190,7 +1191,12 @@
gpm_screensaver_lock (manager->priv->screensaver);
- gpm_networkmanager_sleep ();
+ nm_sleep = gconf_client_get_bool (manager->priv->gconf_client,
+ GPM_PREF_NETWORKMANAGER_SLEEP, NULL);
+ if (nm_sleep) {
+ gpm_networkmanager_sleep ();
+ }
+
ret = gpm_hal_hibernate (manager->priv->hal);
manager_explain_reason (manager, GPM_GRAPH_EVENT_RESUME,
@@ -1230,7 +1236,12 @@
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gpm_screensaver_poke (manager->priv->screensaver);
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+ GPM_PREF_NETWORKMANAGER_SLEEP, NULL);
+ if (nm_sleep) {
+ gpm_networkmanager_wake ();
+ }
+
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@@ -1257,6 +1268,7 @@
gboolean allowed;
gboolean ret;
gboolean do_lock;
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char *message;
int charge_before_suspend;
@@ -1279,7 +1291,12 @@
gpm_screensaver_lock (manager->priv->screensaver);
- gpm_networkmanager_sleep ();
+ nm_sleep = gconf_client_get_bool (manager->priv->gconf_client,
+ GPM_PREF_NETWORKMANAGER_SLEEP, NULL);
+ if (nm_sleep) {
+ gpm_networkmanager_sleep ();
+ }
+
/* We save the current charge in mWh so we can see how much power we
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@@ -1348,7 +1365,12 @@
if (do_lock) {
gpm_screensaver_poke (manager->priv->screensaver);
- gpm_networkmanager_wake ();
+ nm_sleep = gconf_client_get_bool (manager->priv->gconf_client,
+ GPM_PREF_NETWORKMANAGER_SLEEP, NULL);
+ if (nm_sleep) {
+ gpm_networkmanager_wake ();
+ }
+
sync_dpms_policy (manager);
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--- gnome-power-manager-2.16.1/src/gpm-prefs.h 2006-07-30 14:51:54.000000000 +0200
+++ gnome-power-manager-2.16.1-new/src/gpm-prefs.h 2006-10-05 12:05:15.000000000 +0200
@@ -55,6 +55,9 @@
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#define GPM_PREF_LOCK_USE_SCREENSAVER GPM_PREF_DIR "/lock_use_screensaver_settings"
+
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+
/* These are only effective if the system default is turned off. See bug #331164 */
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[SOLVED] GNOME Power Manager Icon

Hello,
With the recent influx of GNOME 2.22 packages, gnome-power-manager has begun to behave strangely on my system.
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Computer is running on AC power
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Thanks!
Edit:
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Battery 1: charged, 100%
I'm not quite sure where gnome-power-manager procures its information about the batteries)....
Last edited by ssjlegendx (2008-04-20 18:34:53)

I just updated to HAL 0.5.11rc2-2, and it seems that my problem has been solved!
I didn't see the related bug report before starting this thread.... Thanks, JGC!
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[SOLVED] gnome-power-manager ignores dpms_method_ac

There's no way (it seems ) to make gnome-power-manager 2.26.3-1 to work fine...
i'd like to put my monitor in standby after a while instead of simply blank and so i set dpms_method_ac in gconf accordingly... but with no success...
i don't know where to find a solution...
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# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
# nvidia-xconfig: version 1.0 (buildmeister@builder63) Wed May 27 03:15:36 PDT 2009
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Layout0"
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Option "RightEdge" "5300" # x coord right
Option "TopEdge" "1700" # y coord top
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Option "TapButton2" "2"
Option "TapButton3" "3"
EndSection
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Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
Option "XkbModel" "hpdv5"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Unknown"
ModelName "Unknown"
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VertRefresh 43.0 - 72.0
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Device0"
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Option "DamageEvents" "True"
Option "NoLogo" "true"
Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"
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Option "RegistryDwords""PowerMizerEnable=0x1; PerfLevelSrc=0x2233; PowerMizerDefault=0x3"
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EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Device0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection
Section "Module"
Load "glx"
Load "synaptics"
EndSection
thanx!
Last edited by euLinux (2009-07-29 07:02:14)

hi miau!
i changed my xorg.conf to match your suggestions... Option "DPMS" "true" moved in Monitor section and blanking and dpms settings in ServerLayout:
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Layout0"
Screen 0 "Screen0"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
InputDevice "Synaptics Touchpad" "SendCoreEvents"
InputDevice "USB Mouse" "CorePointer"
Option "BlankTime" "0"
Option "StandbyTime" "10"
Option "SuspendTime" "15"
Option "OffTime" "20"
EndSection
i guess you suggested me to do this way, isn't it?
unfortunately it still doesn't work!
it seems that after login gnome-power-manager resets all the settings about dpms in xorg.conf... every section i put them in...
this is part of the output of xset q just after login:
Screen Saver:
prefer blanking: yes allow exposures: yes
timeout: 0 cycle: 600
Colors:
default colormap: 0x20 BlackPixel: 0 WhitePixel: 16777215
Font Path:
/usr/share/fonts/misc,/usr/share/fonts/100dpi:unscaled,/usr/share/fonts/75dpi:unscaled,/usr/share/fonts/TTF,/usr/share/fonts/Type1,built-ins
DPMS (Energy Star):
Standby: 0 Suspend: 0 Off: 0
DPMS is Enabled
Monitor is On
any other idea?
thanx

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Suspending and hibernation works well from the command line ($ pm-hibernate and $ pm-suspend). Resuming works without any problems.
Suspending from gnome "Shutdown dialog" works perfectly as well.
However, if suspending is initiated by gnome-power-manager something strange happens: After pressing the power button resuming switches to hibernation and my laptop turns off. Resuming from disk works fine again.
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#!/bin/sh
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#!/bin/sh
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However, if I delete all entries in "usr/lib/hal/scripts/hal-system-power-hibernate" resuming from suspend works fine again, but hibernate doesn't of course. So, some script must be calling "usr/lib/hal/scripts/hal-system-power-hibernate" emmediatly after resuming from suspend.
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Gnome power manager upgrade - nvidia sedmentation error

I am trying to use the rolling update model properly and check the web page for issues before doing my pacman Syu.
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The laptop (Dell Inspiron 1720) no longer suspended when I shut the lid. I still had the shutdown menu option but... when I used it it intermittently caused segmentation fault errors in nvidia settings and stuff like Google Earth no longer worked. My graphics card is geForce 8600M GT.
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Gnome-power-manager update causes backlight to power off frequently

After the upgrade to gnome-power-manager 2.26.1-1 today, my laptop screen backlight is being powered off constantly, after only about 1 minute. It's not the screen blanking, but the backlight going off. It comes right back up if I do anything on the keyboard.
My power management preferences haven't changed though. They're all set (as before the upgrade) to never dim the display and never put the display to sleep. So why is the backlight going off anyway?
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Thanks for any help.
Last edited by cb474 (2009-04-23 07:14:55)

Thanks, I looked for bugs on this, but didn't find that one on the backlight for some reason. I was about to issue my own bug report. Anyway, so I added my comments to the bug report, but it has been marked "fixed" already (because it was really addressing a slightly different issue with DPMS), so I don't know if I need to start a new bug report or not. I'll wait and see what kind of reply I get. (In fact, it seems like the fix to the problem in the backlight bug report may have caused the problem addressed in this thread.)
That said, I found a work around, if you want to completely disable the backlight ever going off. You can issue the command:
xset -dpms
This disables entirely the display power management system (which I'm guessing gnome-power-manager operates as a frontend for). Of course, if you want your screen to be put to sleep after some set point of time this won't work. But you may be able to configure this directly with other xset commands or in xorg.conf (see links below).
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xset -dpms
This is working.
You can also configue DPMS in xorg.conf, but I'm not using xorg.conf so I didn't fiddle with it. See: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/DPMS and http://www.shallowsky.com/linux/x-screen-blanking.html.
Hope that helps.
Last edited by cb474 (2009-04-24 08:26:23)

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Hi all,
since the last update, the gnome power manager applet is gone. I can change the preferences with the gnome-power-preferences tool, but the applet in the system bar is gone... Any idea?
Acker

Master One wrote:
So what's going on?
I do not assume, that users of other distros have such problems, at least in Foresight Linux the applet is working as supposed to, which confirms that it's not an upstream problem. There is a bug open, but no info about any progress.
Is anybody working on a fix?
Jan de Groot has been assigned to this task a few days ago. Jan works on 580 open tasks, most of which have a higher priority then this bug.
As seen from the screenshot threads, quite some Arch users are on Gnome, so that's surely not something just a minority is in need of.
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extra/gnome-power-manager 3.2.0-1 (gnome-extra) [installed]
Power management tools.
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gnome-autogen.sh gnome-power-statistics
gnome-doc-common
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Perhaps there were some wild and crazy changes due to Gnome 3? How do I find/use this thing?
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http://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra … r-manager/
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Last edited by oops (2011-10-11 22:44:35)

pacman -Ql gnome-power-manager
will show you all the files within that package.
pacman -Ql gnome-power-manager | grep /bin/
should find some binaries.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/FA … tart_it.3F
Seems there's only /usr/bin/gnome-power-statistics.
Last edited by karol (2011-10-11 22:45:26)

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JGC wrote:The gnome-power-manager thing is something that appeared after switching to the GtkStatusIcon API. This bug appears because gnome-power-manager starts before the notification area is placed on the panel.
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