Bug 63516

Summary:	apm broken del latitude 810C doesn't detect both batteries
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Elliot Peele <elliot>
Component:	apmd	Assignee:	Bill Nottingham <notting>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:	Aaron Brown <abrown>
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Version:	9	CC:	rvokal
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Description Elliot Peele 2002-04-15 13:12:28 UTC

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Description of problem:
On my Dell Latitude 810C with bios revision A07 I have noticed that the apm does
not detect the battery level when i have the right battery in. It works when I
use just the left battery. I realize that this is more than likely a problem
with the bios, but I thought you might want to know about it.

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How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:

	

Actual Results:  Leave right side battery in and all I get is AC off-line. If I
take the right battery out and leave the left one in i get AC off-line, battery
status high: 100% (3:34)

Expected Results:  the battery level should be displayed with both batteries in
or just one of them.

Additional info:

this is skipjack-2 with all of the updates that apply to my system.

Comment 1 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer 2002-07-01 11:37:33 UTC

There is really nothing we can do about this. Dell need to fix their BIOS to 
report standards compliant APM data.

Comment 2 Elliot Peele 2004-05-16 00:13:19 UTC

This was fixed at some point.