Re: APM battery status reporting

2001-03-09 Thread Tom Sightler
> > tested in previous kernels. Then again my dmesg says the BIOS is probably > > buggy (same BIOS though as mentioned in those posts). Apmd does notice the > > change from mains to battery and vice versa (I have disabled Speedstep so now > > everything actually survives this transition :-). > > S

Re: APM battery status reporting

2001-03-09 Thread Alan Cox
> tested in previous kernels. Then again my dmesg says the BIOS is probably > buggy (same BIOS though as mentioned in those posts). Apmd does notice the > change from mains to battery and vice versa (I have disabled Speedstep so now > everything actually survives this transition :-). > So to en

APM battery status reporting

2001-03-09 Thread Dennis Noordsij
Hi, I have a Dell Inspiron 5000e laptop which works beautifully with 2.4.2, including suspends, DRM, etc etc. One thing that has never worked though is battery status reporting (/proc/apm). However people who sell this exact same laptop with Linux preinstalled (mostly redhat though with their