Comment 44 for bug 531190

Well, thanks for the help with the workaround.

This bug is about a year old and still has no repair, and noone assigned to work on the Ubuntu portion?

here is some information from my netbook. it's a Gateway LT21. Hope it helps.

adam@adam-netbook:/etc/apt/sources.list.d$ upower -d
Device: /org/freedesktop/UPower/devices/line_power_AC
  native-path: /sys/devices/LNXSYSTM:00/LNXSYBUS:00/PNP0A08:00/device:01/ACPI0003:00/power_supply/AC
  power supply: yes
  updated: Fri Dec 3 17:08:48 2010 (674 seconds ago)
  has history: no
  has statistics: no
  line-power
    online: no

Device: /org/freedesktop/UPower/devices/battery_BAT0
  native-path: /sys/devices/LNXSYSTM:00/LNXSYBUS:00/PNP0A08:00/device:01/PNP0C0A:00/power_supply/BAT0
  vendor: SANYO
  model: UM09H31
  power supply: yes
  updated: Fri Dec 3 17:19:55 2010 (7 seconds ago)
  has history: yes
  has statistics: yes
  battery
    present: yes
    rechargeable: yes
    state: discharging
    energy: 41.8824 Wh
    energy-empty: 0 Wh
    energy-full: 46.0296 Wh
    energy-full-design: 47.52 Wh
    energy-rate: 7.8408 W
    voltage: 12.117 V
    time to empty: 5.3 hours
    percentage: 90.9901%
    capacity: 96.8636%
    technology: lithium-ion
  History (rate):
    1291418395 7.841 discharging
    1291418363 8.230 discharging
    1291418332 7.927 discharging
    1291418301 8.316 discharging

Daemon:
  daemon-version: 0.9.5
  can-suspend: yes
  can-hibernate yes
  on-battery: yes
  on-low-battery: no
  lid-is-closed: no
  lid-is-present: yes