Hello Did you turn ACPI=on ? I have a presario 725EA and after doing that I had no problem. Ludo On Sat, 2004-05-22 at 12:59, Juan Antonio Fernandez wrote: > Hi I have installed fedora core 2 a few days ago. I am really happy with > the distro except for the gnome battery monitor. I have a Compaq > Presario 1722 and battery applet doesn't detect my battery. > > I have acpid up and running. > If I type cat /proc/acpi/battery/CMB0/status works fine > and the ac power cord is detected always > > I think that the problem is that battery applet only looks for > information in /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0 or BAT1 and as far as my laptop > has this directory called CMB0 and I think it is not possible to make a > link :( > > Any help would be really appreciated > > I am really sad for this issue :( >