From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Hans Kristian Rosbach Subject: Re: Re: ACER Aspire 5000 <- Will these bios bugs ever be fixed? Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 10:01:54 +0200 Message-ID: <1125475314.3594.8.camel@linux> References: <20050829180845.98096.qmail@web81605.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: acpi-devel-admin-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org Errors-To: acpi-devel-admin-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: To: acpi-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org Patching the dsdt.dsl isn't exactly for the faint at heart, so I am wondering wether this will be possible to work around automagicly for known problems on specific models? I did contact Acer and ask them to just apply some easy fixes for the Ferrari 4005 battery detection. The reply I got was very surprising. Basicly she told me they don't want my business if I use anything other than windows. I'll probably try again at some later point if this is going to be a problem for long. It seems that they think it's not worth while to support Linux users at all. And since windows somehow doesn't have the same problem it's unlikely to ever be fixed even though it is an actual bug in their bios implementation. -HK ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf