@brianx
I agree about the need to increase the importance of this bug.
I also have this problem on two of my own machines and one of my
customers all of which crash if suspend is used. The only way out then
is for them to be turned on the power switch as off as none of the Alt-
SysRq sequences wo
I can confirm I am also seeing the problem on an MSI Wind U100 (with
original bios) and had found the fix using setting 'use_time_for_policy'
to FALSE works. The problem occurs with two different batteries.
Looking at the various charts one can view using the gnome-power-manager
gui there seems t
Alfrenovsky
I have not been able to get your script to work [yet] for me but I
confirm I can see anomalous readings after both plugging in and removing
the power adapter on the output from upower -dump on the MSI Wind.
If this is a common BIOS problem why have we not seen it before. I have
been u
I have just checked the setup in Jaunty and I find that there are more
options under gconf-editor -> apps -> general including a key called
invalid_timeout which does exactly what we need - the description is
"The invalid timeout is in ms for Power actions. Set longer if you get
a 'battery critica
Alfrenovsky
The 'drain in 10 minutes' limit might still gives us a potential problem
between 10 minutes battery life left and the 2 minutes that is the
normal shutdown point on machines that have intermediate readings.
A delay of 30 secs would use some of the hibernate time and need the
standard
