[sclug] Post: See you later Linux

[mskadu@gmail.com]

Nice link :) Thanks for sharing.

On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 1:42 PM, Matt Dainty <matt at bodgit-n-scarper.com>wrote:

> * Alex Butcher <lug at assursys.co.uk> [2008-09-27 15:22:16]:
> > On Fri, 26 Sep 2008, mskadu at gmail.com wrote:
> >
> > >I thought I'd share my recent blog post on Linux with the group.
> > >
> > >http://mytechieself.blogspot.com/2008/09/see-you-later-linux.html
> >
> > Seeing as it was the ACPI/Gnome Power Manager issue that appears to have
> > been the straw that broke your back, did you:
> >
> > a) consider booting with acpi=off, then disabling gnome-power-manager?
> > (since it's almost a cosmetic thing only, once you know roughly how long
> > your battery lasts for).
>
> I also used to run Linux on a Sony Vaio Laptop a few years ago (Alex
> might remember it ;-) and that had a hardware trait where the battery
> status wasn't reported correctly
>
> It turned out the bytes to report this were swapped barse ackwards in
> memory so my laptop model (and a few others) were blacklisted in the
> kernel and fixed up in code.
>
> So it's not a new thing, been there, done that, got the t-shirt, made
> the website:
>
> http://www.bodgit-n-scarper.com/sony.html
>
> Matt
> --
> "The theory of Space and Time is a cultural artefact made possible by
> the invention of graph paper."
>



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Mayuresh