Re: Touchpad functionality dissappeared for no apparent reason!
>>> Dell ACPI is buggy - and you seem to have two errors in yours. Make
>>> sure you have Dell's latest BIOS for your machine.
>> You know what I'm going to ask now don't you, and I've got a horrible
>> feeling that you're going to tell me that you can't upgrade your BIOS
>> without booting into a Windows/DOS install.
> LOL. First thing is to check the version you have (it's just about the
> first message that shows when you boot) and check Dell's site to find what
> is the most recent. If yours is, there's nothing to do anyway, but iirc
> they actually will send you a self-executing version that creates and
> installs a boot-floppy. It may be DOS, but I don't think you need
> windows. It's been a long time since they had an update for mine, and
> booting into Windows to do it was easy enough, anyway.
My BIOS is definitely old. I have a dmesg line that says;
"ACPI not enabled - BIOS too old. ACPI=force to overide."
I'll check out Dell's site as soon as I get a moment. A bootable floppy
disk through the post sounds like something I can just about deal with.
[...]
Thanks for clarifying the following:
S0 - Normal activity
S1 - Sleep
S2 - ???
S3 - Suspend-to-RAM - Generally not supported.
S4 - Suspend-To-Disk - a.k.a 'Suspend' - Flaky
> 'cat /proc/acpi/sleep' to see which states are supported by the ACPI BIOS.
[...]
> Sleep is definitely supported. Suspend is still problematic on many
> machines, not just Dell, and you might want to try swsusp.
Will do.
>> Ok, but what does the bogo bit [in bogomips] stand for? (And don't look it
>> up. Anyone can do that! :-)
> Well, if I can't look it up, I can't tell you :-)
You could've acted all clever there but you didn't :-)
>> CC me by all means but a follow-up will usually suffice.
> Did I do that? Purely accidental. I try to always respond just on the
> list (especially with people who are rude enough to say "CC me because
> I'm not subscribed" - I figure if you want answers, you should
> participate - besides which, trying to help you got me the answer to why
> _my_ mouse didn't work right)
You didn't CC me. I just have that as a signature thingy. I recently
discovered gmane and am implementing a review of my mailinglist/newsgroup
participation management strategy :-/
sebyte
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CC me by all means but a follow-up will suffice.
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