FC4 battery status broken

[Temlakos]

Tayfun Can wrote:
> I am running 2.6.14-1.1637_FC4 on a R40 Thinkpad.
> 
> After this latest kernel upgrade the gnome battery applet shows "no 
> battery present" all the time. With the previous kernel, it was doing 
> this once in a while and it was working perfectly with FC3.
> 
> /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/info
> 
> present:                 yes
> ERROR: Unable to read battery information
> 
> /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/state
> 
> present:                 yes
> capacity state:          ok
> charging state:          charging
> present rate:            7094 mW
> remaining capacity:      31650 mWh
> present voltage:         16692 mV
> 
> 
> I have read about the new gnome-power-manager on this list. But with all 
> its dependency on the newest hal, etc I  am not comfortable to install.
> 
> Any  thoughts?
> 

FWIW, I do not see that symptom on my Dell Inspiron 1200.

Temlakos