Re: Dell Inspiron i8100 with 2 batteries

From: David Woodhouse (dwmw2@infradead.org)
Date: Sat May 18 2002 - 07:20:37 EST

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dave@AFRInc.com said:
> I've got the same laptop with one battery, but I'm using ACPI. None
> of the current user-space utilities parse this stuff particularly well
> (the filenames in /proc/acpi have changed), but the data all look
> reasonable.

Those data also come straight from the BIOS. The ACPI code on those laptops
is all just traps into the SMM BIOS. I'd guess it's running exactly the
same code inside.

-- dwmw2

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