Klaptopdaemon / Battery Monitor

[Derek Broughton]

Rick Knight wrote:

> I've found a very crude way to get Power Manager applet to show my
> battery status. If I restart hal and then kill and then run
> /usr/share/python-support/kde-guidance-powermanager/guidance-power-manager.py
> Power Manager works. It even reports an absent second battery. This
> sounds like a hal issue to me. What do you think?

Probably both HAL and ACPI.  ACPI is reporting a battery that doesn't exist,
and the power manager applet - after hal restarts - is displaying exactly
what ACPI reports, so the applet would seem to be working properly.

Why you would have to restart hal to get that, I don't know.  The DBUS
restart should have accomplished that anyway (it restarts HAL) but they
should both have been functioning fine after your reboot where acpid
started properly.
-- 
derek