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wrong battery report on asus k45dr

I bought new asus laptop with series k45dr and there is something wrong the battery, it always show that it fully charged , even though i have used my computer for more than an hour then without ...
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My ubuntu 13.04 x64 cann't do cold boot in battery?

I am using HP-Pavilion G6-2005ax, powered by AMD APU A8-4500M, 4GB RAM, 500 GB HDD and AMD Radeon HD7670M 1GB. I am using Ubuntu 13.04-amd64 version. While I am doing cold boot on battery, the Lap ...
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Lenovo S300 does not wake up from sleep

my brand new Lenovo ideapad S300 does not resume from a sleep mode in Ubuntu 12.04 nor 12.10 both 32bit and 64bit versions. Has anyone had this problem?
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How does hotkeys, lid close, suspend etc. work with Ubuntu on a newer Thinkpad Laptop?

I am trying to setup my Thinkpad T420 with xmonad as window manager and with as little gnome as possible. If I launch gnome-settings-manager all my hotkeys (disable touchpad, volume up/down, ...
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I need help with the battery Icon

I have a Toshiba Satellite L645D running Ubuntu 12.10 and it seems like Ubuntu like some other distros (Nadia, Debian) won't recognize my battery and I don't know the reason for that, it won't show ...
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My mouse / keyboard response gets delayed if I don't use it all the time.

Occasionally my mouse / keyboard would take extra long to respond to input. If I moved the mouse or pressed a key it would take an extra second to respond the work normally. If I leave it alone for ...
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Suspend on power button when session is locked

It is possible to configure Ubuntu so that pressing the power button causes an immediate suspend (see here, for example). That configuration does not work, however, if the session is locked. Is it ...
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ACPI _OSC control

I've noticed an error from dmesg output that ubuntu canot enable ASPM: [ 0.192722] pci0000:00: ACPI _OSC support notification failed, disabling PCIe ASPM [ 0.192728] pci0000:00: Unable to ...
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How do I prevent immediate wake up from suspend (version II)?

This question covers one reason a computer might immediately wake after suspend: How do I prevent immediate wake up from suspend? I seem to have a different one. After a recent security patch update ...
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My Lenovo W500 resumes from suspend prematurely

In both Ubuntu 10.04 and 12.04, a perfectly happy sleeping laptop is woken when moved. Either the HD-shock detection, the trackpad or a sloppy key will wake it when the lid is closed. To test this I ...
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How do I resume my session?

I have a desktop computer running Ubuntu, which is a very powerful system and I don't want it on all the time, so I would like to use the Suspend feature, but there is one problem: My computer won't ...
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Power management issues on an Asus N55

I noticed that with respect to Win7 on my Asus N55 Ubuntu 12.04 tend to overheat the system. After startup the fan controller takes control of the fan, I could here it slowing down, after a few second ...
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What can I do to diagnose my ThinkPad R60 locking up when connecting power adaptor? [closed]

I move my laptop between places in my flat quite a bit for this I've got multiple power adaptors connected to outlets in two rooms. Now every now and again (I can't see a pattern) when I move the ...
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Customize the power button action (ubuntu 10.04)

I would like to customize the power button action. The tutorial at http://blog.metalight.dk/2010/07/ubuntu-lucid-custom-power-button-event/ works but not always (the number of shutdown processes can ...
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Dell Dimension 3000 goes into sleep and won't wake up

I installed ubuntu 11.10 on my old desktop Dell Dimension 3000. The installation went well except that I noticed that it installed the OS on the 1T external USB disk. The problem I am seeing is that ...
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When is a Kernel update due for 11.10? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Kernel patch that solves battery issues when for ubuntu ? Thanks to Phoronix there seems to be a fix for the power regression/overheating bug in the Linux Kernel 3.0.1 ...
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Sound system is eating away the battery

In my laptop the sound code is running at 100% even when I am not playing anything. It is causing my palm rest to hit significantly. While I do not face the issue on windows machine where I am using ...
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Do I need to add a boot parameter to work around this kernel power bug on a Sony Vaio VPC-EH1S0E?

If i with dmesg | grep -i aspm have this: [ 0.503709] ACPI FADT declares the system doesn't support PCIe ASPM, so disable it [ 0.673564] ACPI _OSC control for PCIe not granted, disabling ...
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ACPI 30k+ interrupts per second

My computer is currently doing something like 30k+ interrupts per second. This causes battery issues as well as the CPU being always stuck at the highest speed, making it very hot (overheating.. 75C ...
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How do I enable power management on Ubuntu Server?

I have Ubuntu Server 11.04 installed on an old noisy laptop. Its only purpose is to run subversion and I commit code quite rarely, but the laptop should work all the time. So I would like to know how ...
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How to make powertop “Device Power Management” suggestion permanent? [duplicate]

When I run powertop on my laptop I get following suggestion: Suggestion: Enable Device Power Management by pressing the P key Doing this results in considerable saving in power usage and I would ...
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Thinkpad T410 abnormal power consumption and brightness keys behaviour

I've recently installed 11.04 on a fresh Lenovo ThinkPad T410 with a 9-cell battery, but it totally drains up from full battery after about 2:30 - 3:00 hours of normal use (mainly web surfing). The ...
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Modify manually PWM of my fan (fan speed)

I configured fanspeed but it detects only one "temp" captor... In Gnome Sensors applet, I can see the temperature of three captors... The one of my GPU is 75°, 62° for my hard disk and 32° for my ...
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Dell Vostro 3400 reboots instead of shutting down

Well the title says it all. After the GUI button of shutdown responded to reboot. I have tried all the command there is but every time I shut down my laptop it reboots. I tried sudo halt sudo ...
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Laptop resumes from suspend while lid is closed [closed]

I have a Dell Studio 15 and I am running Ubuntu 10.10. When I close my lid or select the suspend option, the machine suspends as indicated by the slowly pulsing power indicator. I'll put the machine ...
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“On battery” is not recognized

I have just bought a lovely ThinkPad Edge 11 which have ~6 hours of surfing in Windows 7. But unfortunately, a clean Ubuntu 10.10 give me max 4 hours which is not satisfactorily. Therefore I have ...