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["Christopher M. Penalver" <christopher.m.penalver@xxxxxxxxx>]

Syed Aamir, as per http://download.lenovo.com/express/ddfm.html an
update is available for your BIOS (1.23). If you update to this
following https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BiosUpdate , does it change
anything?

If not, could you please both specify what happened, and provide the output of the following terminal command:
sudo dmidecode -s bios-version && sudo dmidecode -s bios-release-date

Please note your current BIOS is already in the Bug Description, so
posting this on the old BIOS would not be helpful.

For more on BIOS updates and linux, please see
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs#Bug_reporting_etiquette
.

Thank you for your understanding.

** Tags added: bios-outdated-1.23 needs-upstream-testing regression-
potential

** Tags added: precise

** Package changed: xserver-xorg-video-intel (Ubuntu) => linux (Ubuntu)

** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided => Medium

** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu)
       Status: Invalid => Incomplete

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Title:
  Battery charging slows down my thinkpad severely

Status in “linux” package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  I have a ThinkPad L520 (7859-5BG) Core i5-2520M(2.5GHz) with 4GB RAM
  and Ubuntu 11.10 32-bit install and with gnome classic (no effects)
  environment

  Condition:
  When my battery is charging via power adapter, system is severely slow. This is most often visible when just about every process takes very high CPU (e.g. gnome-panel consuming 60% or chrome consuming 118% of CPU). Working with the laptop is almost impossible due to very slow processing. Clicking "applications" in panel takes 1 second to appear.

  During the above state - as soon as I disconnect my power adapter, CPU
  usage drops to less than 10%, and system becomes super smooth and
  quick again. Also, when the battery gets completely charged, laptop
  (kindof) stops lagging much.  Also, I took my battery out of my
  laptop, and powered it directly via AC adapter, and system was super
  smooth.

  My laptop is dual-boot (despite my hatred for Windows), and I have
  tested battery charging on Windows. THere is NO LAG AT ALL !   This
  confirms that there is no hardware fault, as windows is quick and fast
  during battery charging.

  The state of the system is confirmed - means I can recreate the
  problem almost every time. I have tried "top" to see processes and how
  they look, but no "strange" process is there for one to be able to
  kill. Its essentially the same processes that start hogging my CPU
  completely (chrome, nautilus, gnome-panel, just-any-running-
  process.... )

  I have also tried another brand new charger from Lenovo - but same
  problem there.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
  Package: xorg 1:7.6+7ubuntu7.1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-16.29-generic-pae 3.0.20
  Uname: Linux 3.0.0-16-generic-pae i686
  .tmp.unity.support.test.0:

  ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4
  Architecture: i386
  CompizPlugins: [core,bailer,detection,composite,opengl,compiztoolbox,decor,imgpng,move,snap,grid,gnomecompat,resize,regex,animation,vpswitch,mousepoll,unitymtgrabhandles,place,wall,session,workarounds,expo,fade,ezoom,scale,unityshell]
  CompositorRunning: None
  Date: Fri Mar 23 02:09:39 2012
  DistUpgraded: Fresh install
  DistroCodename: oneiric
  DistroVariant: ubuntu
  ExtraDebuggingInterest: Yes, if not too technical
  GraphicsCard:
   Intel Corporation 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:0126] (rev 09) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
     Subsystem: Lenovo Device [17aa:21dd]
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release i386 (20111012)
  MachineType: LENOVO 78595BG
  ProcEnviron:
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.0.0-16-generic-pae root=UUID=dec2de3b-50bd-4850-b890-b645f6457392 ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
  SourcePackage: xorg
  Symptom: display
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
  dmi.bios.date: 11/04/2011
  dmi.bios.vendor: LENOVO
  dmi.bios.version: 8GET38WW (1.15 )
  dmi.board.name: 78595BG
  dmi.board.vendor: LENOVO
  dmi.board.version: Not Available
  dmi.chassis.asset.tag: No Asset Information
  dmi.chassis.type: 10
  dmi.chassis.vendor: LENOVO
  dmi.chassis.version: Not Available
  dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnLENOVO:bvr8GET38WW(1.15):bd11/04/2011:svnLENOVO:pn78595BG:pvrThinkPadL520:rvnLENOVO:rn78595BG:rvrNotAvailable:cvnLENOVO:ct10:cvrNotAvailable:
  dmi.product.name: 78595BG
  dmi.product.version: ThinkPad L520
  dmi.sys.vendor: LENOVO
  version.compiz: compiz 1:0.9.6+bzr20110929-0ubuntu6.1
  version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.26-1ubuntu1
  version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 7.11-0ubuntu3
  version.libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental: libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental N/A
  version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 7.11-0ubuntu3
  version.xserver-xorg: xserver-xorg 1:7.6+7ubuntu7.1
  version.xserver-xorg-input-evdev: xserver-xorg-input-evdev 1:2.6.0-1ubuntu13
  version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.14.99~git20110811.g93fc084-0ubuntu1
  version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.15.901-1ubuntu2.1
  version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:0.0.16+git20110411+8378443-1

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