Re: RE: Presario DANGER
From: Alan Cox <hidden>
Date: 2002-11-04 12:55:28
On Mon, 2002-11-04 at 10:30, ruud koendering wrote:
All the Compaq Presario's are in danger without ACPI. This is confirmed by new HP. (They d'ont feel to be responcible as always in certain companies. Make something, sell it and then so0rry c'ant help you)
That means you cannot even run DOS on that laptop or any software which disables interrupts for a long time thus stopping ACPI running. It also means it is not a PC compatible system. So its not even safe to boot your old PC games on, not even Doom I'm under the impression ACPI requires proper thermal protection too. I'd have to go and read the specification again. You can expect companies to ship ACPI when it works well enough. Right now even the newest 2.5.4x code crashes on boot on some systems (eg IBM TP600) but its getting a lot lot better. The more people try it and the more they report problems the quicker it gets fixed ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: ApacheCon, November 18-21 in Las Vegas (supported by COMDEX), the only Apache event to be fully supported by the ASF. http://www.apachecon.com