Ubuntu and laptops

[Shawn Christopher]

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 years old though and it was being superceded when I got it - right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
> > 
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