what to do when apm doesn't see my battery?

[Net Llama!]

I've got a shiny new laptop which is working fairly well under RH9.  The 
only bit of weirdness is that apm doesn't recognize that I have a 
battery plugged in, so it can't give me any power readouts.  Now the 
laptop works just fine & dandy, even without AC power, its just that i 
have no way of getting a reading via apm on the amount of charge 
remaining.  Anyone ever run into this before?

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