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Subject: Re: APM battery status reporting
To: dennis.noordsij@wiral.com (Dennis Noordsij)
Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2001 21:46:47 +0000 (GMT)
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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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