Comment 8 for bug 155191

I have an Averatec 6200 laptop with an extra hard drive that I installed Ubuntu 10.04 on. When it boots up it says "your battery may be broken or old".. etc. etc. If I continue to operate it on AC power, the battery indicator shows full charge but the AC adapter connector gets hot and after awhile the battery also gets hot. I put my other hard drive in which has Window$ XP-Home installed on it and the same battery acts normally. It is an old battery but will last about an hour with XP but with Ubuntu, when I unplug the power adapter the systems goes into hibernation within 30 seconds. Something is not quite rite here.

I am new to Ubuntu. I had Fedora 10 on the same hard drive before I reformatted it and installed the newly downloaded Ubuntu and it worked ok. No problem with the batter there either. (I'm also quite new to Linux so I have little knowledge of the system) Wish I could help more.