FC4 battery status broken

[Tayfun Can]

In case anybody searches this list for answers, the issue is tracked in
bugzilla bug #172915

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=172915

So far, adding "acpi_serialize" kernel parameter seems to fix the problem.

On 11/12/05, Tayfun Can <tayfun.can at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I am running 2.6.14-1.1637_FC4 on a R40 Thinkpad.
>
> After this latest kernel upgrade the gnome battery applet shows "no
> battery present" all the time. With the previous kernel, it was doing this
> once in a while and it was working perfectly with FC3.
>
> /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/info
>
> present:                 yes
>  ERROR: Unable to read battery information
>
>  /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/state
>
> present:                 yes
> capacity state:          ok
> charging state:          charging
> present rate:            7094 mW
> remaining capacity:      31650 mWh
> present voltage:         16692 mV
>
>
> I have read about the new gnome-power-manager on this list. But with all
> its dependency on the newest hal, etc I  am not comfortable to install.
>
> Any  thoughts?
>
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