[ltp] Ultrabay battery problems

Simon Williams linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Fri, 22 Dec 2006 14:29:10 +0000


Daniel Maier wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 17, 2006 at 07:16:00PM +0000, Simon Williams wrote:
>>> Is there any way to prevent the BIOS from doing this? I am not using
>>> ACPI.
>> Why on earth not?
> 1. Because I do not want the BIOS to do that.
> 2. If the Ultrabay battery is empty, the system battery might be
> still full (in fact, it always is, because the ultrabay battery is
> used first), so there is no need to do anything at all.

I meant why aren't you using ACPI?