From: Ion Badulescu <ionut@cs.columbia.edu>
To: jdthood@home.dhs.org (Thomas Hood)
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Stelian Pop <stelian.pop@fr.alcove.com>
Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2001 17:34:10 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200110032134.f93LYAd08956@buggy.badula.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20011003153550.0A0D85AC@thanatos.toad.net>
On Wed, 3 Oct 2001 11:35:50 -0400 (EDT), Thomas Hood <jdthood@home.dhs.org> wrote:
> I notice that both the Vaio and the Inspiron have Phoenix BIOSes.
> So perhaps there is a class of Phoenix BIOSes we should be testing
> for. For the time being, we will need to add Ion Badulescu's Inspiron
> to the dmi_blacklist. Ion, can you give us the exact product name,
> exact BIOS vendor name, exact BIOS version and exact BIOS date?
> Also, let us know all the results of your tests of various kernels.
dmidecode says:
Handle 0x0000
DMI type 0, 20 bytes.
BIOS Information Block
Vendor: Phoenix Technologies LTD
Version: A12
Release: 07/04/2000
BIOS base: 0xEA3D0
ROM size: 192K
Capabilities:
Flags: 0x0000000000001F90
Handle 0x0001
DMI type 1, 25 bytes.
System Information Block
Vendor: Dell Computer Corporation
Product: Inspiron 7500
Version: Revision B0
Serial Number: 123456789
and from another laptop exhibiting the same problem:
Handle 0x0000
DMI type 0, 20 bytes.
BIOS Information Block
Vendor: Phoenix Technologies LTD
Version: A06
Release: 05/19/2000
BIOS base: 0xEA380
ROM size: 192K
Capabilities:
Flags: 0x0000000000001F90
Handle 0x0001
DMI type 1, 25 bytes.
System Information Block
Vendor: Dell Computer Corporation
Product: Inspiron 5000
Version: Revision B0
Serial Number: 123456789
Again: both laptops oops with 2.4.9-ac16 when PnPBIOS is enabled, both
work fine with 2.4.10-ac4 even with PnPBIOS enabled.
Ion
--
It is better to keep your mouth shut and be thought a fool,
than to open it and remove all doubt.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-10-03 21:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-10-03 15:35 Thomas Hood
2001-10-03 21:34 ` Ion Badulescu [this message]
2001-10-05 16:57 ` Eric W. Biederman
2001-10-03 21:46 Thomas Hood
2001-10-03 22:04 ` Ion Badulescu
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