From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 13 Sep 2001 16:18:32 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 13 Sep 2001 16:18:22 -0400 Received: from mailhst2.its.tudelft.nl ([130.161.34.250]:16907 "EHLO mailhst2.its.tudelft.nl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 13 Sep 2001 16:18:06 -0400 Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 22:18:26 +0200 From: Erik Mouw To: chris@boojiboy.eorbit.net Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.4.9-ac9 APM w/Compaq 16xx laptop... Message-ID: <20010913221826.C742@arthur.ubicom.tudelft.nl> In-Reply-To: <20010913091748.A21626@arthur.ubicom.tudelft.nl> <200109131955.MAA07591@boojiboy.eorbit.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200109131955.MAA07591@boojiboy.eorbit.net>; from chris@boojiboy.eorbit.net on Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 12:55:56PM -0700 Organization: Eric Conspiracy Secret Labs X-Eric-Conspiracy: There is no conspiracy! Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 12:55:56PM -0700, chris@boojiboy.eorbit.net wrote: > > Could you also tell what the kernel thinks about your laptop? It should > > print things like "BIOS Vendor: Phoenix Technologies LTD". > > Here is the newly patched dmesg output: > > Linux version 2.4.9-ac9 (root@oso) (gcc version 2.95.3 20010315 (release)) #1 Thu Sep 13 10:51:23 PDT 2001 > ... > Initializing RT netlink socket > DMI 2.2 present. > 11 structures occupying 403 bytes. > DMI table at 0x000DC010. > BIOS Vendor: Phoenix Technologies LTD > BIOS Version: 4.06 > BIOS Release: 08/16/99 > System Vendor: Compaq. > Product Name: Compaq PC. > Version 0F0B. > Serial Number 1V96CLS9D42J. > Board Vendor: Compaq. > Board Name: 0548h. > Board Version: Rev.A. > Asset Tag: No Asset Tag. > apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.14) Right, this might give some clues to diferentiate between board revisions. Now we only need the output from a Compaq 12XL125 to see if it differs. But the most important question now is: does it work? Can you halt and reboot your machine? Erik -- J.A.K. (Erik) Mouw, Information and Communication Theory Group, Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Information Technology and Systems, Delft University of Technology, PO BOX 5031, 2600 GA Delft, The Netherlands Phone: +31-15-2783635 Fax: +31-15-2781843 Email: J.A.K.Mouw@its.tudelft.nl WWW: http://www-ict.its.tudelft.nl/~erik/