Am Mittwoch 16 August 2006 14:19 schrieb Takashi Iwai: > At Wed, 16 Aug 2006 14:04:50 +0200, > > Prakash Punnoor wrote: > > Am Mittwoch 16 August 2006 13:11 schrieb Takashi Iwai: > > > position_fix=1 is actually a hardware problem. This could be fixed by > > > BIOS update (if any)... > > > > Thx for the info. But what exactly should I report to Asus? > > That the position registers (70h/74h) don't work properly. > I don't know what values are read there. You need to try to dump the > values to check what's going on there. Well, could you point me how to do it? Im not a kernel dev... > > And if they don't > > fix it, wouldn't a quirk be user-friendly? (The kernel also applies > > various quirk for broken BIOSes...) > > Sure, but how could you choose the appropriate option for a certain > board with a certain BIOS version? That's the biggest question. IIRC, this could be done reading DMI (perhaps after checking pci ids), as I think for some other quirk in the kernel this was done (or at least proposed). bye, -- (°= =°) //\ Prakash Punnoor /\\ V_/ \_V
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