[NBLUG/talk] Mandrake 9.1 on a my laptop

[Rob Orsini]

At 02:16 PM 6/6/2003 -0700, you wrote:
>On Fri, 2003-06-06 at 12:14, Rob Orsini wrote:
> > Does anyone have any thoughts on how well the new
> > Mandrake might work on this box, or laptops in general?
>
>Mandrake 9.0 installed very smoothly on my Dell Inspiron 8100 a few
>months back. Suspend worked as expected, but KDE refused to display the
>battery level. It could tell whether it was plugged in to AC or not, but
>no level indication. Just perpetually 0% charge. I didn't try very hard
>to make it work.

More good news! Well, my battery only lasts 5 minutes, tops, so I'll be 
ecstatic if that's the only thing that's not fully supported.  And, yes, 
'suspend' was the term I was grasping for ;-)  Thx.