Bug 73472

Summary:	battstat-applet-2 lacks ACPI support
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Damien Miller <djm>
Component:	gnome-applets	Assignee:	Mark McLoughlin <markmc>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	Mike McLean <mikem>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	8.0	CC:	mrproper
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Description Damien Miller 2002-09-05 03:37:45 UTC

Description of Problem:

The battstat-applet-2 does not seem to be able to read battery/AC status
information for ACPI

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
gnome-applets-2.0.1-5

How Reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Build and install a kernel with ACPI and no APM support
2. Add a battstat-applet-2 to the gnome panel

Actual Results:

An applet containing no charge information and a red exclamation mark

Expected Results:

An applet displaying a more or less discharged battery

Comment 1 Havoc Pennington 2002-09-25 19:47:09 UTC

Possibly related:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=88553
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=93875

Comment 2 Havoc Pennington 2002-12-20 02:51:10 UTC

Seems well in hand on gnome.org. We'll get a new gnome-applets before the next 
release containing any fixes. (not quite in rawhide, but will be shortly.)