[help!!!!!!] laptop

[Duncan Lithgow]

On Wed, 2006-11-01 at 23:55 -0500, Beinan Li wrote:
> My laptop: DELL Inspron 8500
> ubuntu 6.06 (newly installed without any additional settings)
I can see on this page (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LaptopTestingTeam/Dell)
that no-one has done official testing on the Dell Inspiron 8500. If
you'd like to help with this let me know.

> Symptom: power is just gone after the power cable is unplugged.
> the battery is not auto switched into use like in windows.
> 
> is there anything that i have to tweak to get it working?
> thanks!
I'm sure someone will have a solution to this - try reading some of the
other Dell laptop test reports, maybe there's a solution there.

Sorry I can't help you myself, Duncan

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