Battery Status Applet in Gnome

[Darren Critchley]

Anonymous 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!
>
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try acpi=force in your kernel config, that is what I had to do.

You can also check the output from dmesg and it will tell you where the 
acpi is failing if in fact it is.

Darren