From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Len Brown Subject: Re: dmi info requested... - Dell - Precision WorkStation 690 Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 15:13:26 -0500 Message-ID: <200802121513.26658.lenb@kernel.org> References: <47B0FA26.4010302@tlinx.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from hera.kernel.org ([140.211.167.34]:34735 "EHLO hera.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754526AbYBLUOJ (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Feb 2008 15:14:09 -0500 In-Reply-To: <47B0FA26.4010302@tlinx.org> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: Linda Walsh Cc: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org On Monday 11 February 2008 20:45, Linda Walsh wrote: > ACPI: DMI System Vendor: Dell Inc. > ACPI: DMI Product Name: Precision WorkStation 690 > ACPI: DMI Product Version: > ACPI: DMI Board Name: 0MY171 > ACPI: DMI BIOS Vendor: Dell Inc. > ACPI: DMI BIOS Date: 08/20/2007 > ACPI: Please send DMI info above to linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org > ---- > Note my 410 Workstation ID's DMI as 2.2, but doesn't > seem to provide any output. Should it at least provide > the "send DMI info" line if it is enabled correctly? not necessarily. > What's this for, anyway? It is part of a search for BIOS bugs triggered by BIOS use of _OSI(Linux). This was indicated by the line following what you pasted above, which probably read something like: ACPI: If "acpi_osi=Linux" works better, please notify linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org Please send me the output from acpidump for the machine which printed out the DMI console messages above. thanks, -Len