ACPI reporting discharing, when AC is online and battery is full

Danny Kukawka danny.kukawka at web.de
Thu Feb 16 06:28:55 PST 2006


On Thursday 16 February 2006 13:24, Sjoerd Simons wrote:
> Hi,
>
>   I got some reports from debian users that the gnome battery applet always
>   shows that the machine is on battery even though AC is on.
[...]

>   Now the question is: Is the applets logic flawed and should it just look
> at the ac_adaptors status or should hal work around this in some way by not
> reporting discharging if on AC power?

The bug is in the applet. Check AC state from HAL instead of battery states.

Cheers,

Danny


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