John E. Perry wrote:
Aaron Kulkis wrote:
John E. Perry wrote:
Thanks, Frank. This seems to have solved my problem.
...well, one thing has nagged me since I put 10.1 on this thing last
year, but it's never been enough of an issue to prod me into asking
about it. The battery indication is completely nonsensical. ...
Actually, it just occurred to me to ask on hp's support forum. I'd
still like to hear from you, though.
What did HP say?
Sorry, I've been on a trip for the last two months, and my ISP doesn't
allow me access to smtp from outside the Cox network. Webmail sucks too
bad for me to deal with it unless I absolutely have to.
HP told me to wipe my suse partition and restore the thing to the
original XP configuration, then they'd think about helping me.
While I was gone, other problems cropped up, so now I guess I have to do
it so I can find out whether I need to send the thing back for repair.
At least they're talking about extending the warranty period for my
series of machines.
Have you asked them when they're going to give
real support for basic linux functionality
(not any distro in particular...just the software
which the distributers collect to make a distribution,
such as, in this case, releasing information to the
battery-monitoring software teams so that the
battery monitor software actually gives at least
reasonably approximate battery-life indications)?
It's not like HP is completely unfamiliar with
Unix in general, or even Linux in particular.
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