Ubuntu and laptops

[Jon Dixon]

Latest available BIOS AFAIK, but I will check.

The laptop is ACPI only - no APM. It is coming up for a couple of
years old though and it was being superceded when I got it - right
price at the time though.

On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 10:31:11 -0500, bnutting <ulist at gs1.ubuntuforums.org> wrote:
> 
> I'm thinking that it has to do with your particular laptop. I have a
> Dell Inspiron 5000 and my battery applet seems to work fine.
> 
> Do you have the most current BIOS upgrades, if any? I know that way
> back in the day, I had issues with my laptop and APM/ACPI and I needed
> to upgrade my BIOS. When I did upgrade things seemed 'fixed'.
> 
> Bryan
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