On Monday 11 February 2008 20:45, Linda Walsh wrote: > ACPI: DMI System Vendor: Dell Inc. > ACPI: DMI Product Name: Precision WorkStation 690 > ACPI: DMI Product Version: > ACPI: DMI Board Name: 0MY171 > ACPI: DMI BIOS Vendor: Dell Inc. > ACPI: DMI BIOS Date: 08/20/2007 > ACPI: Please send DMI info above to linux-acpi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > ---- > Note my 410 Workstation ID's DMI as 2.2, but doesn't > seem to provide any output. Should it at least provide > the "send DMI info" line if it is enabled correctly? not necessarily. > What's this for, anyway? It is part of a search for BIOS bugs triggered by BIOS use of _OSI(Linux). This was indicated by the line following what you pasted above, which probably read something like: ACPI: If "acpi_osi=Linux" works better, please notify linux-acpi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Please send me the output from acpidump for the machine which printed out the DMI console messages above. thanks, -Len - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
