From: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
To: Linda Walsh <acpi@tlinx.org>
Cc: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: dmi info requested... - Dell - Precision WorkStation 690
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 15:13:26 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200802121513.26658.lenb@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47B0FA26.4010302@tlinx.org>
On Monday 11 February 2008 20:45, Linda Walsh wrote:
> ACPI: DMI System Vendor: Dell Inc.
> ACPI: DMI Product Name: Precision WorkStation 690
> ACPI: DMI Product Version:
> ACPI: DMI Board Name: 0MY171
> ACPI: DMI BIOS Vendor: Dell Inc.
> ACPI: DMI BIOS Date: 08/20/2007
> ACPI: Please send DMI info above to linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org
> ----
> Note my 410 Workstation ID's DMI as 2.2, but doesn't
> seem to provide any output. Should it at least provide
> the "send DMI info" line if it is enabled correctly?
not necessarily.
> What's this for, anyway?
It is part of a search for BIOS bugs triggered by BIOS use of _OSI(Linux).
This was indicated by the line following what you pasted above, which
probably read something like:
ACPI: If "acpi_osi=Linux" works better, please notify linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org
Please send me the output from acpidump for the machine
which printed out the DMI console messages above.
thanks,
-Len
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-02-12 20:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-02-12 1:45 dmi info requested Linda Walsh
2008-02-12 20:13 ` Len Brown [this message]
2008-02-12 21:36 ` dmi info requested... - Dell - Precision WorkStation 690 Linda Walsh
2008-02-13 4:21 ` Len Brown
[not found] ` <47B299B5.4040002@tlinx.org>
2008-02-14 4:26 ` Len Brown
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