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Re: [trinity-users] TDEPowersave doesn't report running on battery

From: "Timothy Pearson" <kb9vqf@...>
Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2014 13:38:45 -0600
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> On 12/05/2014 08:58 AM, Timothy Pearson wrote:
>>> TDEPowersave always reports running on AC power, even when running on
>>> the battery, and doesn't give the low battery warnings.  This started
>>> when I upgraded to R14; it worked fine in 13.2.  It's a big problem
>>> because, when runing on battery, the machine just dies with no warning
>>> when the battery is dead.
>>
>>> This is on an HP laptop running Debian 7 (Wheezy) and R14 from Slavek's
>>> repo, updated this morning.
>>
>> Does TDE detect your battery (see TDE Control
>> Center-->Peripherals-->Hardware Device Manager)?  Let me know if you see
>> a
>> battery device; if you do please double-click on it and send a
>> screenshot
>> of the popup dialog along with your response.
>
> It sees 2 batteries; the first is apparently the AC adapter.

This should be fixed in GIT hash 066f317 (tdelibs); once the nightly
builds contain this fix please test and confirm.

Thanks!

Tim
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