[ltp] Ultrabay battery problems

Simon Williams linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Sun, 17 Dec 2006 19:16:00 +0000


Daniel Maier wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a T22 and I am using a Ultrabay battery. If the Ultrabay
> battery is empty, the BIOS seems to think that there is no more
> battery power at all, even if the system battery is full. So the
> laptop does not wakeup from suspend to ram. I have to pull the
> ultrabay battery und wait a few seconds.
> Also, if I boot (eg for resume from disk), the BIOS enters some kind
> of suspend to ram while GRUB is loading.

> Is there any way to prevent the BIOS from doing this? I am not using
> ACPI.

Why on earth not?