On Tue, 12 Mar 2002 15:09:48 -0500 jhf@rivenstone.net (Joseph Fannin) wrote:
>
> On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 10:02:25AM +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> > Hi Marcelo, Linus,
> >
> > This adds DMI recognition for anohter broken Dell laptop BIOS (BIOS
> > version A12 on the Insiron 2500).
>
> I think this problem exists for all i2500 BIOS versions > A06. (I
> have such a machine, and access to the BIOS versions back to A08 if
> there is something specific I can test for -- that APM power status
> worked with revision A06 is just heresay.)
Thanks for the offer. The way to test this is to install each BIOS version,
boot into Linux (preferably in single user mode :-)) and then cat /proc/apm.
If you get an OOPS with then it probably has this problem. The send
the BIOS versions to us and we will add them to the black list.
-- Cheers, Stephen Rothwell sfr@canb.auug.org.au http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~sfr/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/