Laptop Battery Usage

[John Lagrue]

Raffi Khatchadourian wrote:

> Yes, but the power management system under windows decides when to 
> turn off your laptop. I would suppose that a laptop running linux 
> without power management software would run until all power is depleted.

That's what happens to me. I have FC3 on an Acer 2301LCi and it tells me 
that I don't have a battery!

Any ideas as to how I can persuade Fedora that there's actually a 
battery in this beast?

JDL