Short story: sudo modprobe pmu_battery Long story: This is not an issue with GPM but with an underlying hardware abstraction layer. Previous versions of GPM used HAL for all the low-level work (it supports regular hardware via sysfs and PowerPC Macs via /dev/pmu and /proc/pmu interfaces), whereas current version relies solely on DeviceKit (it only supports sysfs). To make DeviceKit see the battery, pmu_battery kernel module needs to be loaded. Unfortunately either it was never loaded by default or upgrade from 9.04 to 9.10 broke it.
Related bug reports in other distros: - Debian: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=544264 - Fedora: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=502253 ** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #544264 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=544264 ** Bug watch added: Red Hat Bugzilla #502253 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=502253 -- gnome-power-manger does not work in karmic ppc https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/458004 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
