From: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
To: Chris Collins <chris@eorbit.net>
Cc: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: hwapci-0142 error (dmidecode)
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 12:56:04 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200807231256.05113.trenn@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080720023327.GA6026@eorbit.net>
On Sunday 20 July 2008 04:33:27 Chris Collins wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 05:14:17PM -0700, Chris Collins wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > ACPI doesn't work on my desktop, a VIA Apollo MVP3 chipset.
>
> Hello,
>
> In re-reading the ACPI-HOWTO I see that the output from
> dmidecode is helpful, so here you go:
> (I've never seen this before...cool.)
>
> ******dmidecode******
>
> chris@darkstar:/home/chris# cat dmi.txt
> # dmidecode 2.9
> SMBIOS 2.1 present.
> 33 structures occupying 870 bytes.
> Table at 0x000F0800.
>
> Handle 0x0000, DMI type 0, 19 bytes
> BIOS Information
> Vendor: Award Software International, Inc.
> Version: 4.51 PG
> Release Date: 12/21/00
This machine/BIOS is rather old?
You should better stay with ACPI switched off.
You could search for a BIOS update and try again, but I expect it won't help.
Thomas
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-23 10:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-20 0:14 hwapci-0142 error Chris Collins
2008-07-20 2:33 ` hwapci-0142 error (dmidecode) Chris Collins
2008-07-23 10:56 ` Thomas Renninger [this message]
2008-07-23 23:17 ` hwapci-0142 error Chris Collins
2008-07-24 1:04 ` Zhao Yakui
2008-07-24 7:49 ` Thomas Renninger
2008-07-21 1:17 ` Zhao Yakui
2008-07-21 3:59 ` Chris Collins
2008-07-21 5:41 ` Zhao Yakui
2008-07-21 6:24 ` Chris Collins
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