Re: Fun and excitement with Dell Latitude C600

[Derek Broughton <dbroughton@netcom.ca>]

martin f krafft wrote:
> 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?

No.  Just that any OS can load its own DSDT.  On my Dell Inspiron 2500 
Windows seems to, and the one in the BIOS doesn't (quite) work

--
derek



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