Technical Blog of Richard Hughes

Seeing as I now have a laptop that won't resume, set the lcd brightness or even charge it's own battery, gnome-power-manager development is on hold. I can't afford to trade in this laptop and buy something else before I start work in September, so 2.19.x development is effectively frozen.

My Lenovo 300 N100 laptop is now not charging the battery. The laptop also won't turn on when on battery power alone as the cell is 0% charged. Removing and reinserting the battery sometimes makes it charge for a few seconds only.

This laptop is a hunk of shit.

EDIT: IT GETS WORSE. According to this lenovo document  the battery isn't covered under the warranty. This laptop is less than 6 months old…

If you have an ACER laptop, please read this battery recall notice.

If you are affected by the recall or have a similar TravelMate, please email me the output of lshal to richard_at_hughsie_dot_com (and state if you are affected) – and then I can add the DMI data to hal-info. Many thanks.

This is the current gnome-power-statistics user interface:

It is a pretty rubbish UI from a HIG point of view, and the language is also not great. Glade file here if it helps. So, suggestions anyone?

Now, what's with the artwork for Fedora recently? I've been looking at some of my old screenshots of RH9 and FC1 and they left me wondering… why did the old version look so much more clean, neat and professional than the new versions?

Now, I've got nothing against air balloons, but it's hardly the most professional of images to be the default for rhgb, GDM, grub, and the default wallpaper. What about some sleek new lines for F8?

The cynic inside of me would say that RHEL is kept more professional as it's not the product that being given away for free. Also, some of the Echo icons are nice, but I really think the Tango theme is much more professional. Comments?

Okay. In playing with this laptop some more, I'm trying to fix the suspend and hibernate keyboard buttons. Suspend is activated using Fn+F4 and hibernate Fn+F12. Or at least that's what they are meant to do.

I'm getting the following in my dmesg:

Suspend:
atkbd.c: Unknown key pressed (translated set 2, code 0×97 on isa0060/serio0).
atkbd.c: Use 'setkeycodes e017 <keycode>' to make it known.
atkbd.c: Unknown key released (translated set 2, code 0×97 on isa0060/serio0).
atkbd.c: Use 'setkeycodes e017 <keycode>' to make it known.

Hibernate:
atkbd.c: Unknown key pressed (translated set 2, code 0×98 on isa0060/serio0).
atkbd.c: Use 'setkeycodes e018 <keycode>' to make it known.
atkbd.c: Unknown key released (translated set 2, code 0×98 on isa0060/serio0).
atkbd.c: Use 'setkeycodes e018 <keycode>' to make it known.

Now, I know I could hack up something involving rc.local and setkeycodes but what's the real way to fix this so it works out of the box for people? This is on Fedora Core Rawhide. Either post a comment or email me at richard_at_hughsie_dot_com please.

Thanks.

My Lenovo 300 N100 is causing problems again. When I press Fn-F7 to switch output video modes the output is like below on the laptop TFT, blinking from red to pale blue:

The analogue VGA output does sort-of work, when set to 1024×768 (rather than a widescreen mode) but I can never get the TFT display back to normal, even with repeated Fn-F7's.

Anyone seen this before? I've tried the latest nv and nouveau DDX. Needless to say, this has never worked on Linux for me, and always worked with Windows XP.

Thanks.

Spot the absent minded typo:

rpm -e rpm -e –nodeps ConsoleKit-libs

Bother.

#rpm -Uvh rpm-4.4.2-40.fc7.i386.rpm
/bin/rpm: No such file or directory…

Meh. I think I've just blown my feet off. Now, where's that backup…

Hey hey hey!!! Many thanks to darktama and all the guys in #nouveau for all the help getting this far!

A sign of progress. Trust me: it now better than hard-locking my system, which is what nouveau_dri did repeatedly yesterday. Next step is working out GRCTX so we can get some actual gears…