>>> Dell ACPI is buggy - and you seem to have two errors in yours. Make >>> sure you have Dell's latest BIOS for your machine.
>> You know what I'm going to ask now don't you, and I've got a horrible >> feeling that you're going to tell me that you can't upgrade your BIOS >> without booting into a Windows/DOS install. > LOL. First thing is to check the version you have (it's just about the > first message that shows when you boot) and check Dell's site to find what > is the most recent. If yours is, there's nothing to do anyway, but iirc > they actually will send you a self-executing version that creates and > installs a boot-floppy. It may be DOS, but I don't think you need > windows. It's been a long time since they had an update for mine, and > booting into Windows to do it was easy enough, anyway. My BIOS is definitely old. I have a dmesg line that says; "ACPI not enabled - BIOS too old. ACPI=force to overide." I'll check out Dell's site as soon as I get a moment. A bootable floppy disk through the post sounds like something I can just about deal with. [...] Thanks for clarifying the following: S0 - Normal activity S1 - Sleep S2 - ??? S3 - Suspend-to-RAM - Generally not supported. S4 - Suspend-To-Disk - a.k.a 'Suspend' - Flaky > 'cat /proc/acpi/sleep' to see which states are supported by the ACPI BIOS. [...] > Sleep is definitely supported. Suspend is still problematic on many > machines, not just Dell, and you might want to try swsusp. Will do. >> Ok, but what does the bogo bit [in bogomips] stand for? (And don't look it >> up. Anyone can do that! :-) > Well, if I can't look it up, I can't tell you :-) You could've acted all clever there but you didn't :-) >> CC me by all means but a follow-up will usually suffice. > Did I do that? Purely accidental. I try to always respond just on the > list (especially with people who are rude enough to say "CC me because > I'm not subscribed" - I figure if you want answers, you should > participate - besides which, trying to help you got me the answer to why > _my_ mouse didn't work right) You didn't CC me. I just have that as a signature thingy. I recently discovered gmane and am implementing a review of my mailinglist/newsgroup participation management strategy :-/ sebyte -- CC me by all means but a follow-up will suffice. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
