Regardless of battery charge, when unplugged Ubuntu displays critical battery message and hibernates. I can only seem to change it to either shutdown or hibernate.
This does not happen when using windows 7 on the same computer. Windows 7 gives a good few hours on a full charge indicating that it is not a battery problem.
Any help? I really don't want to have to use windows but its kinda pointless having a netbook that doesn't work when not plugged in!
I'm using a toshiba nb250 and the most up to date 11.10 ubuntu distro. I use to get the critical battery message before on the previous ubuntu but it never shut down or hibernated my computer.
Best Answer
I guess your computer is configured to suspend/shutdown when he thinks the battery level is critical. To change that behaviour, you need to install
dconf-tools
. Then open it in dash (dconf Editor), and follow this path:And change the value of
critical-battery-action
to nothing. Also, if the battery is marked as broken, you can also uncheck the optionnotify-perhaps-recall
.Hope it helps.