From: "Preben Randhol" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Joseph Fannin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 01/02/2002 (07:23) : > > When I say the BIOS is broken, I mean anything involving APM -- > > even reading battery status -- causes a kernel OOPS, which when > > traced, fails when calling the system BIOS. Apparently things have > > been this way with every BIOS version greater than A06 -- which isn't > > available anywhere I could find. > > But I don't understand. I thought that it had only ACPI and not APM. > ACPI is not fully developed like APM on linux, so I guess ACPI should > work in the future. I see that in Windows XP ACPI is used and not APM.
I agree with Joseph. My i2500 had no Dell partition, either. Dell certainly doesn't support Linux on the i2500 (I don't think they support it on anything but the 8000-series). I don't think Joseph is disagreeing with you over APM vs ACPI. APM is broken - so in effect it _doesn't_ have APM - but you can't do anything useful with ACPI, and I don't know whether that's Dell's fault or just that ACPI on linux isn't sufficiently advanced. Given the discussion so far, I think I'll concentrate on seeing what can be done with ACPI. Cyn, I know you were trying to be helpful, but it's clear you don't actually have a 2500 - this is not some old Windows machine we're trying to convert to Linux, it's Dell's current low-end laptop. It's new enough that when I ordered mine in October, I ordered a 2400 and got a 2500. They come with a minumum 128MB of memory, so a 32MB partitiion couldn't be the suspend partition. btw, I did find one thing that you can do with APM. If the apm.o module is loaded, shutdown actually halts the system. If it isn't, shutdown leaves you at a "Power Off" prompt :-) derek
