Re: what is the worst laptop atm?

Bruno Ducrot
2005-01-03T16:59:32Z

On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 05:28:57PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
>
> > > I've seen other Acer notebooks, and they failed not only S3 but also
> > > S4 (aka swsusp platform). Only S5 worked.
> > >
> > > Other interesting machines are "compaq evo n620c" (thermal problems,
> > > no S3, no S4, and probably lots of others.
> >
> > IIRC the thermal problem is fixed by DSDT override. I'm not
> > sure if we can make more for that one, other than telling HP to fix
> > this bios (and its possible there is a bios upgrade available, who
> > knows).
>
> Do you have a pointer for DSDT patch? HP was willing to take bug
> reports, and if patch is "obviously correct", they'll probably apply
> it to the next BIOS...

http://acpi.sourceforge.net/dsdt/view.php?id=288

(unfortunately, it's not a patch and the original is 'old').

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