[Bug 694667] Re: Battery Indicator does not work in Netbook

2010-12-27 Thread Jonathan Russo
So after researching a little more I found out that Acer uses a so called "smart battery" that uses a different bus then normal and this is why Ubuntu(or any other distros) can't find it. I've read that support for this is built in but needs to be enabled somehow? Does anybody have an idea of how

[Bug 694667] Re: Battery Indicator does not work in Netbook

2010-12-26 Thread Jonathan Russo
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[Bug 694667] [NEW] Battery Indicator does not work in Netbook

2010-12-26 Thread Jonathan Russo
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: gnome-power-manager On my Acer Aspire One AO521 I cannot get the battery indicator to work properly. I am running Ubuntu 10.10 with version 2.32.0-0ubuntu1 of gnome-power- manager. I expected: the indicator to show the battery status(if it is charged an