[Bug 14050] some acpi laptops erroneously report 'discharging' while on AC power

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------- Additional Comments From yathster at yahoo.com  2005-09-14 03:35 UTC -------
(In reply to comment #5)
> Created an attachment (id=3745)
 --> (http://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/attachment.cgi?id=3745&action=view) [edit]
> acpi-discharge-fix.patch
> 
> Here's a workaround for HAL.  
> 
> Joshua:  if you could:
> 
> apt-get source hal
> then take this patch and save it inside
> hal-0.5.3/debian/patches/acpi-discharge-fix.patch
> then build the package like normal.
> 
> Please report if this fixes your problems.
> 
> 
> One note: when going from discharging to plugged in and not charging (ie: you
> plug in the AC adaptor when still at 100%) the battery status won't immediately
> get updated to not be 'discharging' unless we also get another ACPI event for
> some other change in the battery.  If the patch works, please report how
> quickly the battery is marked as not discharging in this case.
> 
> Cheers.

I installed this patched hal package but the behavior is the same as before.

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