Have you tried to update the BIOSes on those guys? ACPI is the replacement for APM. APM, as I understand it, will be phased out if favor of ACPI in future kernels and releases. Some manufactures have made BIOS updates to become ACPI compliant...
> -----Original Message----- > From: Adrian Rodriguez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2003 11:50 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [Cooker] More laptop support stuff > > > Hi. I've been using mandrake on laptops for a while now but > every release > there's always something i have to research online before i > get it to work... > > Case 1: My Dell Inspiron 4000. > I've only been using mandrake on this guy since 9.1 came out. > I went through > the install and in the end i looked at the lilo config dialog > and everything > looked ok. So i started the laptop and i didn't get any > battery readings :( > so ACPI wasn't working for this laptop. I don't know if its > a hardware > issue?? So i uninstalled ACPI and modified the lilo config > and next time the > computer was turned on i had battery readings with APM. So > I'm happy with > that but someone new to linux would never know how to do > this. I'm still > downloading cooker isos so i will test to see if things have > changed.... but > just in case someone else has an inspiron 4000, have you guys tested? > Another thing that my girlfriend complained about was how > there were so many > games installed but alot of them weren't playable. She > wanted to play tux > racer and it was just really slow. I don't know if there's just now > acceleration for the detected video card or the config is messed up. > The detected card was: > Description: Rage Mobility M3 AGP 2x > Module: Card: ATI Rage 128 Mobility > That's it for the issues on this laptop. > > Case 2: Dell inspiron 8100 > I've been using mandrake on this guy since 8.2. After 8.2 > everything was > ok except battery meters again. Using ACPI never did > anything. I kept check > my logs and it kept saying something like "trying to allocate > 0 bytes..." > for acpid. So i gave up on that and tried apm... i managed to get it > somewhat working. I was able to press Fn+F3 and go to the > BIOS screen that > reads the batteries but when i hit escape to come back to X > the clock was > wrong. everything else on that laptop works great including > the radeon 7500. > My girlfriend is very new to Linux and when the laptop is > connected to the > powercord she is very happy with it. She likes KDE alot more > than her WinXP. > The only thing that bothers her is that when she takes it to > work or class and > its running on battery she can't tell how much time she has left. > I've done research on this problem and I can't figure it out. > Does anyone > know what the problem is? I think this issue really needs to > get cleared up > because a battery meter is very important. I have a friend > with the same > laptop and he just gave up... sad... but I can't blame him > because he's > always on the run... so he swaps batteries in and out... but > 9.1 that he had > on there never worked. > > > -- > Adrian Rodriguez > University of Southern California > Computer Science > http://www-scf.usc.edu/~sergior > >
