Jean Delvare wrote: >And, if you have another OS on the machine, do you have any hardware >monitoring working there? > No, I have only linux on this machine. >00:02.1 being the SMBus device, I suspect all these is related. >Obviously, your BIOS manufacturer did not allocate an IRQ for the device >if ACPI isn't used, and did not allocate an adequate I/O space, if I >followed your discussion with Mark M. Hoffman correctly. I suspect they >just don't want you to use the device yet. As you say in your other >mail, a newer BIOS may help someday. > >Maybe you should contact Packard-Bell and ask them about it? > Yes, I think I'll do it. Maybe that it could be interesting to also contact Mitac because apparently this is a Mitac 8640 hidden under the Packard-Bell name! If I get some feedback, I will send you the results. -- Philippe Wautelet Research assistant, Aerodynamics Group, University of Liege, Belgium, http://www.ulg.ac.be/aerodyn Private website: http://www.fractalzone.be
