Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sat, 18 Nov 2000 22:02:14 +0100 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: APM oops with Dell 5000e laptop |
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Hi!
> > > Is there a way to uniquely identify the affected BIOSes at boot time and > > > Im looking at one with some pointers from Dell. It won't be in 2.2.18 so its > > quite likely a fixed BIOS will be out first anyway. > > Wherever the fix comes from, I sure hope it comes soon, because it's > getting harder and harder to find cpus for the original 5000 series. And > this new model's been sitting on my desk for couple of weeks now > collecting dust.
Disable apm and be done with that!
I do not see why this is a problem. Just add comment to apm.c, there are more comments about b0rken machines in there. Pavel -- I'm pavel@ucw.cz. "In my country we have almost anarchy and I don't care." Panos Katsaloulis describing me w.r.t. patents at discuss@linmodems.org - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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