Re: Dell latitude C810 - bios update
Goran Ristic wrote:
>
> On Tue, 16 Apr 2002, Derek Broughton wrote:
>
> |> I don't know the latititudes, but certainly Inspirons are getting ACPI
> |> bioses now, leaving APM broken. So, if APM matters, you probably need
to go
> |> back to the previous bios. It's pretty sleazy, imo, but they only care
that
> |> it works on supported systems, and Linux on a Latitude is probably not
> |> supported.
>
> AFAIK is ACPI broken in Win-XX, too.
It probably is on my Inspiron too, but not so you'd really notice.
Battery & AC info works, it suspends & hibernates, it recognizes LID,
Power & Sleep buttons. If I could get it to do all that under Linux I
wouldn't care if the ACPI implementation was actually broken :-)
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derek
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