From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Janosch Machowinski Subject: Re: Re: ACER Aspire 5000 <- Will these bios bugs ever be fixed? Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 19:51:07 +0200 Message-ID: <4315EE0B.7090407@tzi.de> References: <20050829180845.98096.qmail@web81605.mail.yahoo.com> <1125475314.3594.8.camel@linux> <1125478354.20251.5.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1125493848.3355.8.camel@localhost.localdomain> <4315B00F.1080805@gmx.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <4315B00F.1080805-hi6Y0CQ0nG0@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: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger Cc: Alan Cox , Erik Slagter , Hans Kristian Rosbach , acpi-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org Carl-Daniel Hailfinger schrieb: > Alan Cox schrieb: > >>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" > > > For many vendors, contacting some higher-level staff at trade fairs gets > you better contacts than any other method. Especially if you offer to > supply a detailed technical description of the problem and tell them > their engineering will find a solution inside that description. Keep > the email address of the person you talked to and regularly bug them > if the problem persists. > What also works is starting an online petition and setting it somehow up on slashdot ;-). In this way the battery issue of my M6 got fixed. Anyway, if you contact ASUS support you don't get a promise that they will fix it, but at least you get some links to patches that work arround the problem on linuxside... Greets Janosch ------------------------------------------------------- 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