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Date: Mon, 20 May 2002 11:00:47 -0400
To: Marc Lehmann <schmorp@schmorp.de>
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Subject: Re: Dell Inspiron i8100 with 2 batteries
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Thanks.  That did the trick.  I was beginning to suspect the A8+ bios I was
using and beginning to suspect that a downgrade was in order.  But you gave me
the courage to try.


Marc Lehmann:
> On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 10:25:06AM -0400, John Ruttenberg <rutt@chezrutt.com> 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 ;)
> 
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