battery charge status applet broken?

[Bill Nottingham]

Peter (pboy at barkhof.uni-bremen.de) said: 
> Same problem here (IBM Thinkpad T40p),
> 
> I suppose, you don't start with acpi=off, do you? If I modprobe battery
> before I start the battery charge applet, my system will not crash and
> the applet shows up with low battery (no meaningful indicator, battery
> is charged, but doesn't crash :-) ) Seems to be due to an incomplete
> ACPI implementation.

Are you sure your machine didn't oops when you loaded the battery
module? (On my T40p, ACPI is *horrendously* unstable.)

Bill