ACPI works... but the battery applet doesn't...

[Olga Urban]

On Mon, 2005-06-06 at 15:06, Phil Schaffner wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-06-05 at 19:28 +0200, Piero wrote:
> > 
> > I've done a fresh FC3 install... I've an Acer TravelMate 2301LM notebook,
> > with Celeron M processor.
> > With acpi I can see processor informations and temperature, I can capture
> > the power button pression (running script in /etc/acpi/events directory).
> > The only thing I can see are battery and AC status.
> > /proc/acpi/battery and /proc/acpi/AC_Adapter directories are empty, and when
> > I try to add a Battery Status applet on Gnome bar, it says that "battery is
> > not present"... it's false, because battery is inside or AC power is
> > connected.
> > What can you advice me? Is there a workaround?
> 
> Not sure if this applies to your situation, but on my ancient IBM A21p
> notebook with badly broken ACPI support, I have to boot with acpi=off to
> get the battery/AC monitor to work.
> 
> Phil

Can you tell me exactly where I specify that option - at what stage of
the boot process. Thank you.

Olga