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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    OT OT OT: Re: Bug#13014: KDE2.0RC2 - klaptop - severe!
From:       Mark Deneen <deneen () bucknell ! edu>
Date:       2000-10-16 13:12:37
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As a side note, completely unrelated but something worth mentioning..

Dell announced today that they are recalling laptop batteries from their 
Latitude and Inspiron models.  I guess the batteries can short circuit and 
catch fire, even while they are not being used.

http://support.dell.com/battery/


because every laptop that is on fire is one less that can run kde!  ;-)



On Mon, 16 Oct 2000, Paul Campbell wrote:
> On Monday 16 October 2000 09:27 am, Francis.Sedgemore-Schulthess@esa.int
>
> wrote:
> > Hi Paul
> >
> > If that was the only change then it does indeed point to the Dell's BIOS
> > and/or XFree86-4. I submitted the bug report when I did as I just
> > discovered the problem over the weekend, thought initially that my
> > fiddling has caused it, and did a few non-rigorous tests to try and
> > isolate it. There's also the minor issue of KDE2's official release, if
> > this is indeed a KDE bug. I stated that the problem was more likely due
> > to KDE as it did not occur with fvwm. At least I'm sure it didn't, but
> > I'll have to check again this evening (that is if my wife will let me
> > near the machine!).
>
> You did the right thing by reporting it. You didn't say which Dell you have
> - I actually have done all the laptopdaemon development on a Dell 7000 with
> X3.3.5, and the stand-alone code it grew from runs successfully on many,
> many other laptops - this is the first I've heard of this sort of problem
> (again - anyone else here listening who's seen something similar please let
> me know asap!) - the whole area of APM BIOS support in the kernel can be
> pretty hairy, you might try checking out the following conversation (and
> similar ones on the same site) to see if they describe what's happening to
> you:
>
> http://www.linux-notebook.org/cgi/wwwthreads/showpost.pl?Board=xwindows&Num
>ber=43&page=0&view=collapsed&sb=5
>
> Also check Steve's Inspirion site and make sure you have your system
> settings etc correct:
>
> http://www.eecs.umich.edu/~steveh/inspiron/
>
> 	Paul Campbell
>
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