[Tfug] Odd question: Laptop is "acting nuts" when transitioning from battery to AC or back...

[Adrian]

a) Bad/broken solder joints on the power plug makes intermittent contact,on 
eminute the laptop is charging,the next its back on battery...

b) Crappy ACPI implementation... my HP for example has a completely broken 
ACPI table in BIOS with the "correct" table values under a WinXP OS hash tag, 
and completely broken/wrong values under the default and other OS hash tags.


Adrian



On Saturday 04 February 2012 20:39, Jim March wrote:
> I won't have mitts on it until tomorrow but has anybody heard of
> crashes/glitches/etc. when plugging or unplugging a laptop from wall
> power while it's running?
>
> The critter in question has a decent battery in it and is running Mint
> 12, which is basically the same as Ubuntu Oneiric/11.10.  32bit
> install, older-but-still-decent Toshiba dual-core, Intel 945 video.
> It wasn't doing this under Ubuntu Jaunty.  Mint 12 has been a big
> performance boost 'cept for this one issue.
>
> I'm thinking it'll be something like ACPI settings need tweaking in Grub2?
>
> This may not be enough details to go on but...if anybody has seen
> anything like this, sing out.
>
> Jim
>
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