Re: APM battery status reporting

[Alan Cox]

> tested in previous kernels. Then again my dmesg says the BIOS is probably 
> buggy (same BIOS though as mentioned in those posts). Apmd does notice the 
> change from mains to battery and vice versa (I have disabled Speedstep so now 
> everything actually survives this transition :-).
> So to end all the confusion, is there a patch out there that enables battery 
> status reporting for me (and other Dell owners :-) ?

Yes but the update you need is a new BIOS revision. Ask Dell