Re: [ACPI-sppt] Dell Inspiron 5100, BIOS A22, kernel-2.4.22

On Tue, 2003-10-28 at 05:24, Nikola Lecic wrote:
> Hello list,
> 
> 3 months ago, I succeeded to install ACPI partially on my Dell Inspiron 
> 5100 with A06 BIOS, combining lot of ideas of different people, 
> especially Moritz and Bryan (hope still subscribed to this list): 
> http://acpi.sourceforge.net/dsdt/view.php?id=63.
> 
> Now, I upgraded BIOS to A22 and patched 2.4.20.SuSE (with Bryan's slightly 
> modified patch) doesn't work anymore (battery is "absent", temperature is 
> "0").
> 
> I installed new raw 2.4.22 and have again only battery, 
> thermal/temperature and ac_adapter working, but still without anything 
> else.
> 
> Does anybody among you tried similar thing? Or has anybody tried SuSE 9.0 
> + BIOS A22?
> 
> Nikola

Have you tried it with an _unpatched_ kernel? A22 fixed battery and AC
adapter status reporting for Inspiron 1100 users (an almost identical
laptop).
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