Problem with checking battery status
R31 laptops have a problem were checking the battery status causes the mouse to jerk around the screen clicking on things. Also sometimes repeating keypresses are generated.
Causes
Apparently a BIOS bug. Seems to happen with both ACPI or APM.
Workarounds
Don't query the battery. Remove any battery applets from your panel.
Undiagnosed problems
The problem seems to have returned to my system every since I upgraded to GNOME 2.12 and starting running hal/dbus. Perhaps one of those components is querying my battery. If anyway one has any suggestions, please post!
Related Symptoms
These messages in dmesg seem to be related:
psmouse.c: TrackPoint at isa0060/serio4/input0 lost synchronization, throwing 2 bytes away. psmouse.c: TrackPoint at isa0060/serio4/input0 lost synchronization, throwing 2 bytes away.
