Comment 9 for bug 223954

I'm posting the results of the commands Marlon has asked for in the hope that this bug would be fixed soon:

gnome-power-bugreport.sh:

Distro version: DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=8.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=hardy
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 8.04.1"
Kernel version: 2.6.24-19-generic
g-p-m version: 2.22.1
HAL version: 0.5.11rc2
System manufacturer: missing
System version: missing
System product: missing
AC adapter present: yes
Battery present: yes
Laptop panel present: yes
CPU scaling present: yes
Battery Information:
  battery.charge_level.current = 41958 (0xa3e6) (int)
  battery.charge_level.design = 42174 (0xa4be) (int)
  battery.charge_level.last_full = 42174 (0xa4be) (int)
  battery.charge_level.percentage = 99 (0x63) (int)
  battery.charge_level.rate = 0 (0x0) (int)
  battery.is_rechargeable = true (bool)
  battery.model = 'Primary' (string)
  battery.present = true (bool)
  battery.rechargeable.is_charging = false (bool)
  battery.rechargeable.is_discharging = false (bool)
  battery.reporting.current = 3885 (0xf2d) (int)
  battery.reporting.design = 3905 (0xf41) (int)
  battery.reporting.last_full = 3905 (0xf41) (int)
  battery.reporting.rate = 0 (0x0) (int)
  battery.reporting.technology = 'Li-ion' (string)
  battery.reporting.unit = 'mAh' (string)
  battery.technology = 'lithium-ion' (string)
  battery.type = 'primary' (string)
  battery.vendor = 'Hewlett-Packard' (string)
  battery.voltage.current = 12517 (0x30e5) (int)
  battery.voltage.design = 10800 (0x2a30) (int)
  battery.voltage.unit = 'mV' (string)
GNOME Power Manager Process Information:
bgcommon 7096 0.0 1.0 25812 10624 ? Ss 15:57 0:02 gnome-power-manager
HAL Process Information:
111 5945 0.0 0.4 6336 4396 ? Ss 15:56 0:11 /usr/sbin/hald
root 5949 0.0 0.1 3352 1180 ? S 15:56 0:01 \_ hald-runner
root 6024 0.0 0.1 3416 1160 ? S 15:56 0:00 \_ hald-addon-input: Listening on /dev/input/event6 /dev/input/event1 /dev/input/event3 /dev/input/event4 /dev/input/event5
root 6039 0.0 0.1 3428 1260 ? S 15:56 0:00 \_ /usr/lib/hal/hald-addon-cpufreq
111 6040 0.0 0.0 2204 960 ? S 15:56 0:00 \_ hald-addon-acpi: listening on acpid socket /var/run/acpid.socket

gconftool -a /apps/gnome-power-manager/backlight
 idle_dim_battery = true
 idle_brightness = 30
 dpms_method_battery = default
 dpms_method_ac = default
 idle_dim_time = 30
 brightness_battery = 70
 enable = true
 battery_reduce = true
 idle_dim_ac = false
 brightness_ac = 100