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gnome-power-manager package

Acer Aspire one netbook goes to "critical battery" randomly.

Asked by Wyatt Spellman on 2011-03-30

During the the duration of use of my computer. The battery will suddenly go from a full or partially full battery to critical battery and then hibernates immediately. I will then turn the computer back on and the battery is back at full or partially full. This problem happens at least twice during a 1/2 hour use

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2011-03-31
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2011-03-30
Best Sam_ (and-sam) said : #1

Maybe consider hardware (battery) check in a store.
Some User solved battery issue with BIOS update.

http://wiki.debian.org/DebianAcerOne
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AspireOne
http://crunchbang.org/archives/2010/02/20/debian-and-ubuntu-on-my-acer-aspire-one-d150/

Wyatt Spellman (spellmwj) said : #2

Thanks for the help, the second website that you linked me to was extremely helpful it told me exactly what was wrong. And the acer aspire one that i have is known as the 532h. With the Ubuntu this happens with every 532h model. An update of the BIOS from the acer website fixes the problem. Thanks again