Ubuntu and laptops

[Jon Dixon]

All other functionality appears fine.

On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 08:39:33 -0700, Shawn Christopher
<schristopheraz at gmail.com> wrote:
> I kinda came in at the wrong time however is it powering off or what's
> happening? Also have you tried ACPI=off for the Kernel? Please pardon my
> ignorance however I'm coming in on the tail end of the conversation and
> trying to help based on the experience I have had.
> 
> Shawn
> 
> On Thu, 2005-03-24 at 15:27 +0000, Jon Dixon wrote:
> > 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 years old though and it was being superceded when I got it - right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
> > >
> > > --
> > > bnutting
> > >
> > > --
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> > > ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> > > http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users
> > >
> >
> >
> > --
> > If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we
> > can solve them.
> >    - Isaac Asimov
> >
> 
> 


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