On Saturday 19 January 2008 21:42, Dario Castellarin wrote:
> Len Brown ha scritto:
> > On Tuesday 17 July 2007 08:05, Dario Castellarin wrote:
> >
> >> BIOS Information
> >> Vendor: Dell Inc.
> >> Version: 2.4.1
> >> Release Date: 05/30/2006
> >>
> >> System Information
> >> Manufacturer: Dell Inc.
> >> Product Name: Inspiron 1501
> >> Version: Not Specified
> >> Serial Number: 5NYFM2J
> >> UUID: 44454C4C-4E00-1059-8046-B5C04F4D324A
> >> Wake-up Type: Power Switch
> >> SKU Number: Not Specified
> >> Family: Not Specified
> >>
> >> Handle 0x0003, DMI type 2, 8 bytes.
> >> Base Board Information
> >> Manufacturer: Dell Inc.
> >> Product Name: 0UW744??????
heh, after your BIOS upgrade Dell fixed the issue above
by clearing the Board Product Name field:-)
BIOS Information
Vendor: Dell Inc.
Version: 2.6.3
Release Date: 12/07/2007
Address: 0xE5860
Runtime Size: 108448 bytes
ROM Size: 1024 kB
...
Handle 0x0002, DMI type 1, 27 bytes.
System Information
Manufacturer: Dell Inc.
Product Name: Inspiron 1501
Version: Not Specified
Serial Number:
UUID: 44454C4C-2000-1020-8020-A0C04F202020
Wake-up Type: Power Switch
SKU Number: Not Specified
Family: Not Specified
Handle 0x0003, DMI type 2, 8 bytes.
Base Board Information
Manufacturer: Dell Inc.
Product Name:
> >
> > (curious if you added the '?'s above, or did Dell?,
> > they are not there on earlier versions of this BIOS)
> >
> > Thanks for confirming that
> >
> > "acpi_osi=Linux" (default for 2.6.22 and earlier)
> > vs.
> > "acpi_osi=!Linux" (default for 2.6.23 and later)
> >
> > had no functional difference on the 1501.
> >
> > please send me the output from acpidump.
> >
> > thanks,
> > -Len
> >
> > ps
> > If you don't have acpidump, you can get it from pmtools here:
> > http://www.lesswatts.org/projects/acpi/utilities.php
> >
> No, I didn't add anything to that dmidecode dump.
> Sorry but in the meanwhile I upgraded the BIOS to the latest offered by
> Dell (version 2.6.3), many things changed, anyway I attached a new
> dmidecode dump, and also an acpidump.
> I wish this can be useful...
acpi_osi=Linux is a NOP on this box.
thanks,
-Len
Scope (\_SB)
{
Name (LINX, 0x00)
Name (OSTB, Ones)
OperationRegion (OSTY, SystemMemory, 0x37E80F06, 0x00000001)
Field (OSTY, AnyAcc, NoLock, Preserve)
# return value of OSTY is never checked
{
TPOS, 8
}
Method (OSTP, 0, NotSerialized)
{
If (LEqual (^OSTB, Ones))
{
If (CondRefOf (\_OSI, Local0))
{
Store (0x00, ^OSTB)
Store (0x00, ^TPOS)
If (\_OSI ("Windows 2001"))
{
Store (0x08, ^OSTB)
Store (0x08, ^TPOS)
}
...
If (\_OSI ("Windows 2006"))
{
Store (0x40, ^OSTB)
Store (0x40, ^TPOS)
}
If (\_OSI ("Linux"))
{
Store (0x01, LINX)
# setting LINX is a NOP, as it is never referenced
Store (0x80, ^OSTB)
# OSTB is only compard to 4 (NT), so OSI(Linux) doen't affect that
Store (0x80, ^TPOS)
# TPOS is only compared to 4 (NT), so we have no effect on that either
n
}
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