On Friday 14 Jan 2005 10:30, Andreas Kuckartz wrote: > I have the same nasty problem with the battery applet on an Acer > TravelMate notebook with a release candidate of DeMuDi 1.2.1. In my experience, Acer laptops generally suffer from the poor ACPI implementation Lee Revell referred to. You're best off switching off ACPI altogether, if you can live without the battery level warning. As Lee said, this problem is not unique to Linux. Chris