battery charge status applet broken?

[Steve Ward]

Bill Nottingham <notting at redhat.com> wrote thusly:

>Steve Ward (stevewa at spiritone.com) said: 
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>>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.
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>>If I manage to logout of the session and the login screen returns, the 
>>cursor becomes sane again.
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>>Confirmed after a power cycle.
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>>Ideas?
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>Um, you have a very very strange BIOS? :)
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>Seriously, the cursor only goes wacky *after* starting the battery
>applet?
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That's correct.  I did try the most recent BIOS from Sony (2000 dated) 
which was released specifically to correct compatibility issues with 
Win2K (presumably ACPI related).