Re: APM battery status reporting

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Fri Mar 09 2001 - 16:46:47 EST

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> 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 end all the confusion, is there a patch out there that enables battery
> status reporting for me (and other Dell owners :-) ?

Yes but the update you need is a new BIOS revision. Ask Dell

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