Bug#434659: gnome-power-manager: unnecessary warning about Fujitsu-Siemens P7120 battery exchange

[Sven Arvidsson]

On Wed, 2007-07-25 at 19:39 +0300, Lars Wirzenius wrote:
> gnome-power-manager helpfully warns me that the battery in my
> Fujitsu-Siemens P7120 laptop may be faulty and that the manufacturer
> would perhaps like to exchange it. When I check the Fujitsu website,
> their web tool informs me that the actual battery I have is not one
> that requires exchanging. I've included below the relevant (I hope)
> part of lshal output.
> 
> It would be nice if the warning was more specific, but I'm not sure if
> hal reports enough information to reliably distinguish between batteries
> that do and do not require exhanging. It's best to err on the side of
> caution, of course: better for P7120 to check with Fujitsu directly
> unnecessarily than to have someone miss the warning.

Hi,

The recall info comes from 10-recall-battery-fujitsu.fdi from the
hal-info package, so I guess this bug belongs there too?

-- 
Cheers,
Sven Arvidsson
http://www.whiz.se
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