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  1. Bug #458004
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Comment 2 for bug 458004

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Wojtek Kaniewski (wojtekka) wrote : Re: gnome-power-manger does not work in karmic ppc

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