g3mu, I'm happy to report your suggested hack works for me, many thanks. i wouldn't have thought of that as it required a bit more insight into the system than i have!
did you post it on the bug page? much appreciated, thanks again, L Wilkinson On Mon, 2009-08-10 at 05:40 +0000, Gemu wrote: > hi > > I have a little hack for this problem > > cat /proc/acpi/ac_adapter/ACAD/state > > this command to force update the status of AC_Adapter correctly, this > will be used for the hack. > > sudo vim /etc/acpi/events/battery_event > (copy/paste) > event=battery.* > action=cat /proc/acpi/ac_adapter/AC/state > /dev/null > > then restarting the daemon acpid or reboot. > service acpid restart > > now plugged in/out should work out correctly. > -- [Master] hal/acpi incorrectly reports AC adapter state https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/213128 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