Battery Status Applet in Gnome

[Bill Christiansen]

Chris Bozic wrote:

>My battery status applet doesn't seem to be functioning on my laptop
>install of ubuntu.  It shows that it's running on 0% battery power
>even when it's plugged in a fully charged.  I've tried restarting my
>acpid but that doesn't seem to help.  I've also added acpi=on to my
>kernel line in /boot/grub/menu.lst just to make sure but still no
>luck.  Any help would be appreciated!
>
>Thanks,
>Chris
>
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I had this on my Toshiba laptop. In my case it was the age of the bios. 
I managed to solve it by downloading a later bios version from Toshiba 
and adding acpi=force to the /boot/grub/menu.lst. Loading the apm module 
may also work but in my case this caused other problems.