On Wed, 19 Nov 2003 law(a)redhat.com wrote:
In message <1069277483.5150.1.camel@littlePiet>, Peter Boy
writes:
>If I activate ACPI on my IBM Thinkpad T40p, the gnome battery applet
>shows up with 0%.
>
>If I check /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/state I get:
>
>present: yes
>ERROR: Unable to read battery status
>
>Is this usual for the current status of acpi support or is there an
Well, the battery status works on my HP/Compaq 25xx using ACPI.
FWIW, it also works fine on my Compaq Presario 2100, out-of-the-box
(almost, obviously had to add acpi=on to the kernel parameters)
-Dan