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 11:26:26 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 20 May 2002 11:26:25 -0400 Received: from 209-6-202-152.c3-0.nwt-ubr1.sbo-nwt.ma.cable.rcn.com ([209.6.202.152]:33780 "EHLO chezrutt.dyndns.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 20 May 2002 11:26:24 -0400 From: John Ruttenberg MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15593.5530.966736.798235@localhost.localdomain> Date: Mon, 20 May 2002 11:26:18 -0400 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Dell Inspiron i8100 with 2 batteries [Solved!] In-Reply-To: <19261.1021724437@redhat.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.96 under Emacs 20.7.1 Reply-to: rutt@chezrutt.com Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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