battery app using much cpu

[Warren Togami]

Shawn Houston wrote:

> I installed Fedora Core, Severn, on my Averatec 3150HS laptop. I got 
> pretty much everything but the sleep function working.
> 
> I added the battery applet to my Gnome task bar, and under kernel 
> 2.4.22-1.2062.nptl top show 8.8% cpu used by this app. A lot, but 
> bearable. Under kernel 2.4.22-1.2087.nptl this jumps to 49%! I am 
> guessing that some bad programming in the battery app is to blame, the 
> new kernel just makes it show better.
> 
> Anyone else see this?
> 
> -Shawn

Are you using ACPI?

Warren