From: Stelian Pop <stelian.pop@fr.alcove.com>
To: Peter Koellner <peter@mezzo.net>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.4.8-ac5] Another Sony Vaio laptop with a broken APM...
Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 17:52:51 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010816175251.M8473@come.alcove-fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010816173420.J8473@come.alcove-fr> <Pine.LNX.4.21.0108161738390.8142-100000@finnegan.do.mezzo.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0108161738390.8142-100000@finnegan.do.mezzo.net>
On Thu, Aug 16, 2001 at 05:47:17PM +0200, Peter Koellner wrote:
> > However, the Vaio bioses list is getting bigger and bigger
> > and I wonder if there is _any_ Vaio laptop that gets this
> > item right. If not, we could just do a search on SYS_VENDOR /
> > PRODUCT_NAME strings, like the is_sony_vaio_laptop test...
> >
> > Comments ?
>
> at least you got one with apm battery support at all, which is not the
> case with lots of newer vaio laptops. if my observation is right,
> sony and phoenix are about to remove apm support in the NoteBIOS
> completely. most of the latest FX models seem to have their APM bios
> completely broken.
I should say that battery status is almost the only support I get
from the BIOS. (suspend/resume was supported by the older Vaio bioses.)
I'd qualify my C1VE Picturebook as a 80% ACPI - 20% APM machine.
I would not be surprised at all if newer machines go 100% ACPI... :-(
Stelian.
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2001-08-16 15:34 Stelian Pop
2001-08-16 15:47 ` Peter Koellner
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