Re: Problems with Dell 510C and modprobe
Fabian wrote:
> On Thu, 2002-03-21 at 21:11, Derek Broughton wrote:
>> But this is not an Inspiron. I'm not sure whether this advice applies
>> to Latitudes. If it _was_ an Inspiron, the whole problem is APM - which
>> isn't supported. I don't know whether Lars' machine uses APM or ACPI.
>
> Ack. I didn't real carefully enough, sorry.
>
> But APM as well as ACPI is supported on Inspirons AFAIK - or at least it
> works.
It doesn't work at all (except that 'halt' actually completely shuts down
the machine, rather than leaving it at the "Power Off" prompt) on the
Inspiron 2500, and I understood it not to work on 4xxx series machines. It
probably works, at least partly, on 8100s.
> At the moment I can't get to the Dell support site to check what the
> latest BIOS version for Latitude 510C is, but in general it's well worth
> upgrading to the latest BIOS on Dell machines. Some people would say the
> Dell BIOS is very, er, buggy...
I'd never say such a thing. But I think it daily :-) as I try to figure out
how to make ACPI work at least as well as it does on the same machine in
Windows.
--
Derek
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