From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alan Cox Subject: Re: Re: ACER Aspire 5000 <- Will these bios bugs ever be fixed? Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 14:10:48 +0100 Message-ID: <1125493848.3355.8.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <20050829180845.98096.qmail@web81605.mail.yahoo.com> <1125475314.3594.8.camel@linux> <1125478354.20251.5.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1125478354.20251.5.camel-bi+AKbBUZKY6gyzm1THtWbp2dZbC/Bob@public.gmane.org> 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: Erik Slagter Cc: Hans Kristian Rosbach , acpi-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org On Mer, 2005-08-31 at 10:52 +0200, Erik Slagter wrote: > Dell is even worse. If you tell them you run Linux on your laptop they > will try to convince you it may damage your hardware and you won't get > any guarantee whatsoever etc. (this in reply to a simple purely hardware > based question) Random Dell techies might. If you've got specific demonstrable BIOS bugs in modern Dell laptops make sure the Dell Linux folks get them but in an easy to reproduce form, or with a fix. If you can get something through to the Dell BIOS people my experience so far is that it actually gets fixed. Getting something that far into Dell is "interesting" ------------------------------------------------------- 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