you can ignore these messages. they are deleted from the latest kernel. (unless "acpi_osi=Linux" actually makes some functional improvement on this system) thanks, -- Len Brown, Intel Open Source Technology Center On Sat, 17 Jan 2009, Frank Rehberger wrote: > Hi, > > the "Medion Akoya 1210" is a re-branded MSI-Wind U100, it seems the ACPI > is not supported correctly. I get the following message > in /var/log/messages. > > > Jan 14 14:32:07 cereza kernel: [ 0.791904] ACPI: BIOS _OSI(Linux) > query ignored > Jan 14 14:32:07 cereza kernel: [ 0.791911] ACPI: DMI System Vendor: > MEDION > Jan 14 14:32:07 cereza kernel: [ 0.791915] ACPI: DMI Product Name: > E1210 > Jan 14 14:32:07 cereza kernel: [ 0.791919] ACPI: DMI Product Version: > Ver.001 > Jan 14 14:32:07 cereza kernel: [ 0.791923] ACPI: DMI Board Name: > E1210 > Jan 14 14:32:07 cereza kernel: [ 0.791928] ACPI: DMI BIOS Vendor: > American Me > gatrends Inc. > Jan 14 14:32:07 cereza kernel: [ 0.791932] ACPI: DMI BIOS Date: > 06/26/2008 > Jan 14 14:32:07 cereza kernel: [ 0.791936] ACPI: Please send DMI info > above to linux-acpi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Jan 14 14:32:07 cereza kernel: [ 0.791942] ACPI: If "acpi_osi=Linux" > works better, please notify linux-acpi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Jan 14 14:32:07 cereza kernel: [ 0.797629] ACPI: Interpreter enabled > Jan 14 14:32:07 cereza kernel: [ 0.797635] ACPI: (supports S0 S1 S3 > S4 S5) > Jan 14 14:32:07 cereza kernel: [ 0.797676] ACPI: Using IOAPIC for > interrupt routing > > > -- > 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 > -- 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