From: "Tom Sightler" <ttsig@tuxyturvy.com>
To: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: inspiron 8100 freezing
Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2002 09:16:04 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <006101c1b562$23b39a40$0d2b0a0a@zeusinc.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200202141021.LAA08331@harpo.it.uu.se> <20020214114856.B13643@stud.ntnu.no>
> Mikael Pettersson:
> > I bet you have CONFIG_SMP or CONFIG_X86_UP_APIC enabled. In that
> > case the hangs on the Inspiron are expected: it's BIOS is buggy.
>
> Ok, what's wrong? Just telling them something is wrong with their BIOS
> doesn't do much good :)
This seems to affect my Latitude C810 with the latest BIOS (A05). When I
flashed to that version my linux system started handing at random spots.
Disabling CONFIG_X86_UP_APIC took care of the hangs, but I also lost all of
my battery status support (the batter would always say unknown).
I downgraded the system back to A04 and everything went back to normal. So
I agree with this question, what's wrong with Dell's BIOS? It seems that
whatever they do to get XP working breaks Linux badly. I could complain,
but I'd need to be specific about what they are actually doing wrong.
Later,
Tom
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-02-14 14:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-02-14 10:21 Mikael Pettersson
2002-02-14 10:48 ` Thomas Langås
2002-02-14 14:16 ` Tom Sightler [this message]
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2002-02-14 14:30 Mikael Pettersson
2002-02-14 1:34 Ian Eure
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