Dave,
here is the original message
where my reply was bounced by vger as taboo.

as the dmidecode was not in-line,
I selected it in the attachments pane of kmail
and highlighted the lines I wanted to reply to,
clicked reply, and they were put in a window for
me where i added some text and hit send.

unclear at this point how to convince kmail how
to not send in a format that offends vger.

-Len

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Subject: dmidecode acpi_osi=!Linux
Date: Saturday 14 July 2007 08:16
From: "Gerard de Vos" <gerard@de-vos.net>
To: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org

Hi,

I got this in my dmesg:
ACPI: System BIOS is requesting _OSI(Linux)
ACPI: Please test with "acpi_osi=!Linux"
Please send dmidecode to linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org

acpi_osi="!Linux" makes a big difference on this laptop. If I boot without
it the system hangs on boot unless I specify "noapic". noapic in turn
generates a lot more interrupts that have to be handled by irqfixup or
irqpoll.

Regards,

Gerard

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