I have an averatec 3715-eh1 and the following worked for me sudo /etc/init.d/acpid stop sudo killall hald sudo /etc/init.d/acpid start sudo hald
the battery applet appears to work properly afterwards though this procedure needs to be repeated on each X session restart. looks like a bug in how the various processes startup. -- gnome-power-manager issues with HAL reports on Asus M6Ne https://launchpad.net/bugs/71337 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
