Messages in this thread | | | From | John Ruttenberg <> | Date | Mon, 20 May 2002 11:00:47 -0400 | Subject | Re: Dell Inspiron i8100 with 2 batteries |
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Thanks. That did the trick. I was beginning to suspect the A8+ bios I was using and beginning to suspect that a downgrade was in order. But you gave me the courage to try.
Marc Lehmann: > On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 10:25:06AM -0400, John Ruttenberg <rutt@chezrutt.com> wrote: > > I am using 2.4.18 and have a Dell I8100 with 2 batteries. If combined charge > > I also have this notebook, and the APM bios is rather broken. You might try > downgrading your BIOS to A07 or so, that *could* help (it helped here). > > ACPI doesn't work stably on that machine (not here, at least), and doesn't > seem to be desirable, as reading battery status freezes the machine for > 0.2s ;) > > -- > -----==- | > ----==-- _ | > ---==---(_)__ __ ____ __ Marc Lehmann +-- > --==---/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / pcg@goof.com |e| > -=====/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\ XX11-RIPE --+ > The choice of a GNU generation | > | - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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