Re: Re: IBM Thinkpad A31 | ACPI problems

[Arndt Schoenewald <abs-SA7OhAOe25xnNxvc45mVi0K323yFvGpRdefyYXQ/eNw@public.gmane.org>]

Hmm ... if it turns out that IBM does not fix their BIOSes, I will have
to start advising people against buying Thinkpads. Period.

Perhaps we should find a way to make this very clear to IBM, and to
the other companies who think they will get away with not doing their
homework -- and of course to all potential buyers.

Nobody wants to give up their freedom, so the inability to run Linux on
a newly bought machine is something that will even annoy many of those
who are currently only interested in Windows.

Arndt


On Sat, Jan 04, 2003 at 11:53:42AM +0100, Dom wrote:
> Hi Thinkpad dudes out there,
> 
> 1.) the following message was posted by an IBM employee on 
> http://www7.pc.ibm.com/~Thinkpad
> 
> ------------------
> Topic: ACPI Linux (2 of 2), Read 6 times  
> Conf: ThinkPad A20,A21,A22,A30,A31 
> From: Theresa@IBM2 
> Date: Friday, January 03, 2003 02:27 PM 
> Hello Dom,
> Unfortunately, we do not have any information on whether or not the BIOS will 
> be updated to resolve the issue you are having with the ACPI. This is up to 
> the IBM Software Developers.
>  
> Thank you for choosing the IBM Forums.
>  
>  
>  Theresa L. IBM World-Wide Electronic Support and Services
> ---------------------
> 
> 2.) thats the reply to my email sent to IBM technical support:
> 
> --------------------
> Dear Mr. Bar,
> you have contacted the technical support of IBM and we can't give you
> marketing informations about future equipment. Please call our service
> centre at 01803 - 31 32 33 and ask for someone who is able to inform you
> about that.
> 
> Best regards
> Your IBM eSupport
> 
> 
> 
>                          IBM Personal Computing Division
>                          http://www.ibm.com/pc/support
> --------------------
> 
> I will try to contact a developer at IBM ...
> 
> Greetings,
> Dom

-- 
Arndt Schoenewald <abs-SA7OhAOe25xnNxvc45mVi0K323yFvGpRdefyYXQ/eNw@public.gmane.org>, Software Developer
Quelltext AG (http://www.quelltext-ag.de), Dortmund, Germany


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