Re: battery charge status applet broken?

[Joel Young <jdy cs brown edu>]

From: Steve Ward <stevewa spiritone com>:
> Trying to add the battery charge applet to the panel on my Sony
> PCG-F360 and it segfaults.  Any ideas?

I was getting the same problem.  Then i noticed that
acpid wasn't installed (I don't remember telling the
install not to install it but...)

then a modprobe ac and modprobe battery and then
then battery monitor worked like a charm.

dell inspiron 8500 wuxga+

Joel