ACPI battery module broken?

[Jim Cornette]

Peter Boy wrote:
> 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
> error? 
> 
> 
> Peter
> 
> 
> 
> 
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There are two modules that work for the battery monitor.

Try running modprobe battery ac

I had to add these two modules to my /etc/rc.d/rc.local file until they 
were added to initscripts

insmod ac
and
insmod battery
should also work.

I take it that you have acpi=on set in your kernel line.

Jim
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