On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 3:13 PM, Charles M <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:chaslinux@gmail.com">chaslinux@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Has anyone found Karmic Koala's power management problematic? My<br>
notebook started overheating ever since I put Karmic Koala on it. I<br>
went back to Ubuntu 8.04-LTS and the overheating seems to have<br>
stopped. Just thought I'd mention this for anyone else thinking of<br>
upgrading to Karmic Koala.<br></blockquote><div><br>Now that you mention it, I felt that my left handrest area felt very hot today.<br>This is where the hard disk is, I think.<br><br>I also noticed that the Guidance Power Manager icon showed the that the <br>
AC adapter is connected although I was on battery only.<br><br>This is Kubuntu, not Ubuntu, but perhaps the problem is common.<br><br>At the ACPI level, things seem to be working though:<br>
<br>With AC adapter not connected:<br># cat /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/state<br>present:                 yes<br>capacity state:          ok<br>charging state:          discharging<br>present rate:            1789 mA<br>remaining capacity:      4347 mAh<br>
present voltage:         10800 mV<br><br># cat /proc/acpi/ac_adapter/ADP0/state<br>state:                   off-line<br><br>With AC adapter connected:<br># cat /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/state<br>present:                 yes<br>
capacity state:          ok<br>charging state:          charged<br>present rate:            1183 mA<br>remaining capacity:      4391 mAh<br>present voltage:         10800 mV<br># cat /proc/acpi/ac_adapter/ADP0/state<br>state:                   on-line<br>
<br>So ACPI does detect what is going on. Perhaps another layer is botched though.<br></div><div>--<br></div></div>Khalid M. Baheyeldin<br><a href="http://2bits.com">2bits.com</a>, Inc.<br><a href="http://2bits.com">http://2bits.com</a><br>
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