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

[Phil Schaffner]

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