I've got the same problem on my Acer Aspire 5672, dmidecode also not being able to find info about the chasis.
laptop-detect correctly detects I have a laptop, though... Maybe hal needs workarounds similar to what laptop-detect uses? -- hal don't find that I'm on a laptop https://launchpad.net/bugs/59342 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs