Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 2 Sep 2008 08:51:12 -0400 | From | Dmitry Torokhov <> | Subject | Re: Lenovo 3000 N100 i8042 problems |
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On Tue, Sep 02, 2008 at 09:43:13AM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Tue, 02 Sep 2008, Jiri Kosina wrote: > > so the product name both of System and Base Board are different, and > > apparently the systems differ. Dmitry, what fields would you propose to be > > put in the DMI matching here? I will do the patch then. > > Are you sure you shouldn't be looking at BIOS version, instead?
Unfortunately we can't do "less than" type of comparison on DMI data, otherwise it would be great solution.
> I don't know > how the Lenovo N100 series is, but chances are their i8042 is emulated > inside the ACPI EC, i.e. a firmware upgrade can change the i8042 behaviour. >
I think this is true for all boxes manufactured in the last 8 years.
> I'd check BIOS versions, and ask people to upgrade to the latest, to see if > the problem goes away (or changes). Then you will know for sure the best > approach. >
Keeping compatibility with the other OS is the safest way so unless Vista started using active MUX there is probably update to the BIOS fixing legacy mux mode.
-- Dmitry
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