From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 18 Aug 2001 04:51:02 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 18 Aug 2001 04:50:53 -0400 Received: from hr1-cf9a48a7.dsl.impulse.net ([207.154.72.167]:38673 "HELO madrabbit.org") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Sat, 18 Aug 2001 04:50:46 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.4.8-ac6] (Yet) Another Sony Vaio laptop with a broken APM... From: Ray Lee To: Dave Zarzycki Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Evolution/0.12 (Preview Release) Date: 18 Aug 2001 01:50:59 -0700 Message-Id: <998124659.440.15.camel@orca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 17 Aug 2001 10:08:25 -0700, Dave Zarzycki wrote: > On 17 Aug 2001, Ray Lee wrote: > > It's looking more and more likely that they're all backwards. Hey, at > > least they're consistent, right? > My old Sony PCG-505G does seem to get it right. Hmm. You may be taken care of by one of the exceptions already in dmi_scan.c, and it'd be interesting (and useful) to find out. If you've got a few minutes, could you open up arch/i386/kernel/dmi_scan.c and either uncomment or add the line: #define dmi_printk(x) printk x after the existing "#define dmi_printk(x)". With that, upon boot the new kernel will show the BIOS version and date, which dmesg will show. If they are one of: R0203Z3 08/25/00 R0203D0 05/12/00 R0121Z1 05/11/00 R0208P1 11/09/00 ...then in fact your BIOS also gets it wrong, which would be aesthetically pleasing in a sort of perverted way. -- Ray Lee / Every truth has a context.