Power Control on Desktop not working

[C Hamel]

My notebook just took a dive so I dragged out my latest backup and put it on  
my Gateway desktop box and reconfigured X for it.  Only one problem remains: 
that of  the Power Control module w/in Control Center.  The monitor has been 
shutting down properly but I cannot change the time.  Nothing else seems to 
work.

I have purged 'powernowd' and  the  Power Control still shows 'Laptop Battery' 
and under that I have the msg, "Your computer seems to have a partial ACPI 
installation. ACPI was probably enabled, but some of the sub-options were 
not - you need to enable at least 'AC Adaptor' and 'Control Method Battery' 
and then rebuild your kernel."

I have never, ever used Ubuntu on this Desktop box and do not care to  start 
from scratch for a temporary installation.  I would, however, appreciate the 
capability to suspend the box since it does 's'tandby' & 'hibernate' under 
XP.

Need more info?  Please ask.

Thanks...
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	...CH
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