battery charge status applet broken?

[Bill Nottingham]

Steve Ward (stevewa at spiritone.com) said: 
> OK, I loaded the acpid RPM and started it, loaded ac and battery 
> modules, now when I start the battery monitor applet it works fine but 
> my cursor goes "out of control" and races about the screen doing random 
> things.
> 
> If I manage to logout of the session and the login screen returns, the 
> cursor becomes sane again.
> 
> Confirmed after a power cycle.
> 
> Ideas?

Um, you have a very very strange BIOS? :)

Seriously, the cursor only goes wacky *after* starting the battery
applet?

Bill