ACPI battery module broken?

[Dan Goodes]

On Wed, 19 Nov 2003 law at redhat.com wrote:

> In message <1069277483.5150.1.camel at 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