Day: November 14, 2006

Okay, you guys are fantastic. Thanks for all the quick responses. At this rate, no batteries should ever explode again! IBM-LENOVO code is now in hal-info.

Can anybody with a Fujitsu LifeBook  C1320D, P1510 / P1510D, P7120 / P7120D, Q2010 or S7020 / S7020D please email me the lshal output. (richard_at_hughsie_dot_com)… yet more overheating batteries to find.

Thanks. I'm sure someone will complain on p.g.o but this is really a public service announcement with intent to commit code.

EDIT: Please stop the Fujutsu emails, I have enough data now. Many thanks to all that sent emails. Fujitsu is now listed in hal-info.

Today I committed the Dell and Toshiba exploding battery detection into hal-info.

Now I need some help:

LENOVO or IBM Thinkpad users might be subject to recall – can you email me (richard_at_hughsie_dot_com) the output of lshal if you have such a notebook – either if you are affected or if the part or model numbers look similar to 9*P****.

Thanks.

EDIT: Thanks! I've got all the data I need now, so please stop the emails. I've committed code to hal-info to detect the recalled IBM data now.

Memory usage of gnome-power-manager 2.16.x : 2.7MiB
Memory usage of gnome-power-manager 2.17.x : 1.7MiB

On a side note, gnome-power-manager 2.16.x was pretty much synchronous with hard-coded sequences of operations and functions depending on events. 2.17.x is much better code IMO, with most of the events happening asynchronously and with separate state machines. This makes the code much easier to understand and modify, and should squash some weird timing bugs. It also makes adding new functionality as easy to add as dropping in a couple of gobjects and hooking up some signals.

CVS versions of hal, hal-info, pm-utils, PolicyKit, libnotify, GtkUnique and of course gnome-power-manager are in the utopia FC6 repo. Caveat emptor.