After boot with AC Adapter plugged in the ACPI - Battery procfs structure exists:
/proc/acpi/battery/: total 0 dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 0 2010-01-27 07:28 BAT0 /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0: total 0 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 2010-01-27 07:28 alarm -r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 2010-01-27 07:28 info -r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 2010-01-27 07:28 state and after this command the KDE enviroment detects battery: $ cat /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/info I will test your fix after release. -- linux (2.6.32-10.14) - "delay first lookup of the battery until first use" confuses KDE battery management https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/507211 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