From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 20 May 2002 10:09:16 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 20 May 2002 10:09:15 -0400 Received: from islay.mach.uni-karlsruhe.de ([129.13.162.92]:58012 "EHLO mailout.schmorp.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 20 May 2002 10:09:13 -0400 Date: Mon, 20 May 2002 16:09:09 +0200 From: Marc Lehmann To: John Ruttenberg Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Dell Inspiron i8100 with 2 batteries Message-ID: <20020520140909.GA29491@schmorp.de> Mail-Followup-To: John Ruttenberg , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <15589.4802.37068.931146@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline X-Operating-System: Linux version 2.4.18-pre8-ac3 (root@cerebro) (gcc version 2.95.4 20010319 (prerelease)) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 10:25:06AM -0400, John Ruttenberg 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 | |