I have a Dell I4000 laptop with Woody (Sid) that I loaded up a few days ago. Impressed with nice job Debian has done. APM doesn't work though with the 2.2.20 kernel. I was thinking about moving up to 2.4 but I'll wait for some good news from someone who has it working first.
/Dee Matthijs van der Meer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've read various posts describing APM problems with Dell laptops. My > APM works fine on kernel 2.4.18 with APM and i8k complied in (info gets > read, suspend & resume apparently works) yet any of the Fn+XX > combinations (e.g. Fn+D, Fn+volume-up, even Fn+arrow keys!) freezes my > Inspiron 4100 real hard, and so does pulling/plugging the power cord. > Other symptoms include: fans blowing at full speed after suspending for > more than two hours, random lockups when not using the machine but > leaving it on for long. > > This leads me to think I have a BIOS problem. > > Can anyone recommend a i4100 BIOS which works well? Or otherwise point > to a solution to these weird problems? > > Thanks! > > - Matthijs > > > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
