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How can I prevent my laptop auto suspend (due to critically low battery) from looping?

I have an Acer Aspire 5750G on Ubuntu 12.04LTS and I've got a problem: Battery critically low > suspend > wake up instantly (I don't touch ANYTHING) > suspend > wake up.... power outage > dead. I've ...
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HP G6 laptop will not suspend when on battery

I have an HP G6 laptop with 12.10 installed. When running on Battery power it never suspends and the screen never dims. When the AC adapter is plugged in it will dim and eventually suspend just fine. ...
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Lenovo T500 Suspend Issue due to network manager?

I use a Lenovo Thinkpad T500 with Ubuntu 12.10 installed. I have a strange problem. Often when I go to sleep at night and forget to plug my laptop in, I find in the morning that my laptop is ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 laptop battery isn't charging?

My HP EliteBook charged perfectly when Windows 7 was installed. 8560p. I wiped the drive, installed 12.04. For a little while, I could suspend the laptop, and it would charge when the lid was closed. ...
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Where is the gnome-power-manager binary in 12.04?

Using a tiling window manager, I called gnome-power-manager in earlier Ubuntu versions to get the battery tray icon. In 12.04, the gnome-power-manager package is still there, but the binary is gone. ...
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Can't suspend on Acer Aspire One 722 using proprietary AMD drivers

I have an Acer Aspire One 722 netbook with a C60 CPU and a ATI Radeon™ HD 6250 GPU. I am trying to decrease the power usage and have tried Jupiter and Powertop, but the lowest power usage has been by ...
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Suspend when critically low power 11.10

Is there a way to suspend when Ubuntu is at critically low power. The only option in Ubuntu 11.10 power setting is to shutdown or hibernate. I run my battery all the way down till it suspends then i ...
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Where do I set use_time_for_policy?

Where do i find the "use_time_for_policy" fix in ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot? This post fixed it before. Laptop immediately suspends when going onto battery power I installed dconf-tools ...
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Low-battery-power action without gnome-power-manager

I'm running the openbox WM and would like to avoid loading the gnome stack. One of the lingering issues I have to resolve is avoiding abrupt system crashes due to depleted battery power. Is there a ...
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Laptop immediately suspends when going onto battery power

I've got an MSI Wind, model U100 that's been running Ubuntu without trouble for a long while. After upgrading to 10.04 a few months ago, I've had this strange problem. As soon as I unplug the laptop ...
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mouse stuck after resumption from suspend

I'm using Ubuntu 10.04 on a Gateway TA1 convertable tablet PC. After I suspend by closing the lid, and resume by reopening the lid, I cannot use my trackpad mouse anymore. How can I fix this? ...