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gnome-applets package

  1. Bug #2962
  2. Comment #8

Comment 8 for bug 2962

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Ben Collins (ben-collins) wrote : Re: [Bug 2962] Re: Register of Power Status Change Requires Removal & Reinsertion of Battery

On Thu, 2006-04-06 at 19:23 +0000, edal wrote:
> Maybe, but I have been researching this and I have some more data.
>
> If I type acpi -V I get temperature and power status information correctly displayed on the terminal screen, WITHOUT having to remove the battery. I assume the acpi command gets its data from a BIOS call.

If that works, and the gnome-applet doesn't, then I suspect it's a bug
somewhere else. The acpi comment gets its info from the kernel.