From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Francesco Poli Subject: Re: Acer Aspire 1300 buggy BIOS - hardcoded patch Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2003 00:59:46 +0200 Sender: cpufreq-admin@www.linux.org.uk Message-ID: <20030701005946.5e659273.frx@firenze.linux.it> References: <200306301436.29188.lbelli@crema.unimi.it> Reply-To: cpufreq@www.linux.org.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <200306301436.29188.lbelli@crema.unimi.it> Errors-To: cpufreq-admin@www.linux.org.uk List-Unsubscribe: , List-Id: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: cpufreq@www.linux.org.uk On Mon, 30 Jun 2003 14:36:29 +0200 Luigi Belli wrote: > I'm one of the owners of an Acer Aspire 1300 series with a buggy BIOS, > so I decided to hardcode a patch with the correct PST table for my > mobile Athlon XP 1800+. BTW, I have just installed a 2.4.21 + cpufreq patch 3 kernel on an Acer Aspire 1302XV (AMD Mobile Athlon XP 1600+. It seems to work (the back fan has stopped spinning so often and the case temperature looks lower). Does anybody know a simple method to check if the BIOS is buggy or not? Can I run some quick diagnostics? -- Francesco Poli ====================================================== You're compiling a program and, all of a sudden, boom! -- from APT HOWTO, version 1.8.0