also sprach David Z Maze <dmaze@debian.org> [2002.04.02.1939 +0200]: > Last night, I was mucking around a bit. I upgraded the BIOS to > version A20, and tried building kernel 2.4.18 with the ACPI patch from > http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/acpi/, along with ALSA 0.9 and > pcmcia-cs modules. With the magic of GRUB, I can n-tuple boot. So: > > (1) Even the Sourceforge ACPI doesn't find the laptop battery. This > is a problem, but not the end of the world; I can trivially go > back to the non-ACPI 2.4.17 kernel. Michael Dell and Bill Gates are sleeping with each other. dell's computers these days seem to contain components and standards which are close enough to e.g. ACPI to be called ACPI, but they only really work with windoze. surprised? i have given enough tries to getting ACPI to work on my C610 and came up with: it won't work. > (2) The machine spontaneously reboots in Linux after it's been up for > a minute or two. Booting into Windows and then rebooting seems to > help; booting the ACPI kernel seems to hurt. of course. > (4) I'd like to be able to use both the normal serial port and the IR > port (the latter mostly to connect to an iPAQ also running > Linux). The obvious thing to do is configure the DB9 serial to be > COM1 and the IR to be COM2 in the BIOS, but then there seems to be > an interrupt conflict resulting in the machine freezing if both > sound and (wired) serial are used at the same time. Is there any > way to get this working properly? what's the sound hardware? -- martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.) \____ echo mailto: !#^."<*>"|tr "<*> mailto:"; net@madduck this email was written on an os using the viral 'gpl' as it's license. please check with billy gates before continuing to read this message.
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