Re: battery charge status applet broken?

[Steve Ward <stevewa spiritone com>]

Bill Nottingham <notting redhat com> wrote thusly:

> Steve Ward (stevewa spiritone com) said: 
>  
>
> > OK, I loaded the acpid RPM and started it, loaded ac and battery 
> > modules, now when I start the battery monitor applet it works fine but 
> > my cursor goes "out of control" and races about the screen doing random 
> > things.
> >
> > If I manage to logout of the session and the login screen returns, the 
> > cursor becomes sane again.
> >
> > Confirmed after a power cycle.
> >
> > Ideas?
> >    
>
> Um, you have a very very strange BIOS? :)
>
> Seriously, the cursor only goes wacky *after* starting the battery
> applet?
>  
That's correct.  I did try the most recent BIOS from Sony (2000 dated) 
which was released specifically to correct compatibility issues with 
Win2K (presumably ACPI related).