Bug#661995: Inspiron 1090: kernel panic after ACPI power event (Doubled AC adapter)

[Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>]

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Giovanni Biscuolo wrote:

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> do you know any workaround to this kind of problems?

Maybe <http://en.community.dell.com/support-forums/>.

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>> Once there is a BIOS update fixing this, we can talk about
>> workarounds.  I think that should at least be in motion before we work
>> on it, so we can make sure the workaround doesn't break the fixed
>> BIOS.
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> mumble... I fear I'm going to stay whith my buggy BIOS for a very long
> time

Sure.  Maybe I am too idealistic, but I would like to at least see
Dell receive a report about the problem.

> anyway, back to the ACPI problem: this ACPI page
> http://acpi.sourceforge.net/dsdt/index.php states:
> ..................
> Further, the maintainer and the development team generally consider it a
> Linux bug if Windows handles an un-modified DSDT and Linux does not.

Yes, that's still generally true.  Heck, even when Windows doesn't
handle a given DSDT well, if it's common hardware then getting
machines to work "out of the box" with Linux would tend to be
considered valuable.

Does this still happen if you use a kernel without pae support, by the
way?  Context: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=772730

Thanks again,
Jonathan