From: John Ruttenberg <rutt@chezrutt.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Dell Inspiron i8100 with 2 batteries [Solved!]
Date: Mon, 20 May 2002 11:26:18 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <15593.5530.966736.798235@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <19261.1021724437@redhat.com>
Marc Lehmann suggested downgrading to Dell's A7 bios and it fixed this problem
(along with some minor stuff with the i8k fan/temperature control stuff.
(Fans no longer go through speed 2 to get to speed 1). I am also hoping that
it will result in better clock accuracy (I read some posting about this), but
my experiments with this aren't complete.
David Woodhouse:
>
> dave@AFRInc.com said:
> > I've got the same laptop with one battery, but I'm using ACPI. None
> > of the current user-space utilities parse this stuff particularly well
> > (the filenames in /proc/acpi have changed), but the data all look
> > reasonable.
>
> Those data also come straight from the BIOS. The ACPI code on those laptops
> is all just traps into the SMM BIOS. I'd guess it's running exactly the
> same code inside.
>
> --
> dwmw2
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-05-20 15:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-05-17 14:25 Dell Inspiron i8100 with 2 batteries John Ruttenberg
2002-05-17 14:56 ` Alan Cox
2002-05-17 14:39 ` John Ruttenberg
2002-05-17 15:20 ` David G Hamblen
2002-05-18 12:20 ` David Woodhouse
2002-05-20 15:26 ` John Ruttenberg [this message]
2002-05-17 17:20 ` Alan Cox
2002-05-20 14:09 ` Marc Lehmann
2002-05-20 15:00 ` John Ruttenberg
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