I think is not the same bug #194719. Gnome applet detect correctly current state (AC or Battery), it fails with time remaining and it does not know when the battery is near to empty (only BIOS alarm alerts you) .
I Send again requested reports. Now Laptop (IBM Thinkpad X41) is in battery mode and gnome applet indicator shows: 11 hours 50m remaining (39%) acpi -b shows: Battery 1: discharging, 36%, 00:44:55 remaining hal-find-by-capability --capability "battery" /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/computer_power_supply_0 ** Attachment added: "gconftool --recursive-list /apps/gnome-power-manager" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/12353478/gconftool -- [hardy] Gnome battery absurd time remaining https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/196501 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs