Power Manager 3.0 on X220

One of the most usefull features, having Power Manager to display the remaining battery charge on the task bar, disappeared when I installed Power Manager 3.0.0114 (or something).
Before I upgraded it worked great! Well, Power Manager crashed horribly, but the battery charge display as a toolbar on the taskbar did!
Is there anything I can do to make the Toolbar display work again?

Same problem here, the only workaround is ALT+F2 and r. Not always works. My graphic card is:
koven@koven:~$ lspci | grep -i nvidia
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G98M [Quadro NVS 160M] (rev a1)
Mu driver nvidia version is
Name : nvidia
Version : 270.41.06-1
URL : http://www.nvidia.com/
Licenses : custom
Groups : None
Provides : None
Depends On : kernel26>=2.6.38 kernel26<2.6.39 nvidia-utils=270.41.06
Optional Deps : None
Required By : None
Conflicts With : nvidia-96xx nvidia-173xx
Replaces : None
Installed Size : 3944.00 K
Packager : Ionut Biru <[email protected]>
Architecture : x86_64
Build Date : Wed 20 Apr 2011 01:11:09 PM COT
Install Date : Sun 01 May 2011 08:01:37 PM COT
Install Reason : Explicitly installed
Install Script : Yes
Description : NVIDIA drivers for kernel26.
I see nouveau driver will kill my battery so I think I'll not suspend for a while. Let's wait until this issue be resolved.
BR
Last edited by Koven (2011-05-12 13:37:10)

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