Jean Delvare wrote: > On Thu, 11 Oct 2007 10:26:36 +0200, Hans de Goede wrote: >> Graham Murray wrote: >>> Hans de Goede <j.w.r.degoede at hhs.nl> writes: >>> >>>> Interesting, thanks for the notification. The version in 2.6.23 check >>>> a few DMI strings to make sure its running on an Abit motherboard >>>> before randomly bit banging some io-ports. So I guess your motherboard >>>> has different DMI strings then most, can you please mail me the output >>>> of the dmidecode command? Then I'll make sure this gets fixed in >>>> 2.6.24. >>> I think that the problem is that DMI does not work on my system. At boot >>> I get the message "DMI not present or invalid" and running dmidecode >>> confirms this. For the i386, there is no user option to disable DMI >>> during kernel configuration. >>> >>> newton ~ # dmidecode >>> # dmidecode 2.9 >>> # No SMBIOS nor DMI entry point found, sorry. >>> >> Hmm, >> >> Have you tried updating your BIOS? > > Was there an answer to this question? > Nope. Regards, Hans