Fabian wrote: > On Thu, 2002-03-21 at 21:11, Derek Broughton wrote: >> But this is not an Inspiron. I'm not sure whether this advice applies >> to Latitudes. If it _was_ an Inspiron, the whole problem is APM - which >> isn't supported. I don't know whether Lars' machine uses APM or ACPI. > > Ack. I didn't real carefully enough, sorry. > > But APM as well as ACPI is supported on Inspirons AFAIK - or at least it > works.
It doesn't work at all (except that 'halt' actually completely shuts down the machine, rather than leaving it at the "Power Off" prompt) on the Inspiron 2500, and I understood it not to work on 4xxx series machines. It probably works, at least partly, on 8100s. > At the moment I can't get to the Dell support site to check what the > latest BIOS version for Latitude 510C is, but in general it's well worth > upgrading to the latest BIOS on Dell machines. Some people would say the > Dell BIOS is very, er, buggy... I'd never say such a thing. But I think it daily :-) as I try to figure out how to make ACPI work at least as well as it does on the same machine in Windows. -- Derek
