And to follow up on that... Feisty had a fit the second after I wrote the above, ergo, problem not fixed.
I was not able to duplicate my fix at first. I let the batter drain and restarted the computer - the Gnome power aplet was saying AC power *even with the AC unplugged* and acpitool seemed to be saying I didn't have a battery at all - even though I was running on battery entirely! I found a fix, but it is as whacky as everything else with this. See bug 122378, a rejected bug. What I did was boot from an Edgy CD (maybe a Feisty CD would have worked too) while the battery was partly drained and the AC disconnected. Battery seems to be properly recognised. Rebooted Feisty from the hard drive. Now all of a sudden I have a (correct) battery icon, that says I am running on AC power (I am) and that the battery is charging, and it is tracking the degree of charge. acpitool says I have a battery present. Not having any meltdowns. There seems to be a communication and a persistence between Ubuntu and the hardware on these Compaq Presario laptops that is not dependent on the hard disk! Or something. There is a mystery here. Maybe if it can be solved, it can expand the breadth of Ubuntu's unproblematic hardware support. -- CPU overheats during high usage "throttling <not supported>" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/22336 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
