On Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 04:07:45PM +0200, Jean Delvare wrote:
> Hi Franck,
>
> Quoting myself back in April:
> > > I just had a mail from another R52 user, reporting that his system
> > > (also 1846AQG) also reports ThinkPad H.
> >
> > I gathered data on my side too, the three R52 I had reports for used
> > "ThinkPad R52" but these had different machine type/model. I guess that
> > the 1846AQG is somehow different, but probably you don't know why?
> >
> > So I suppose we could add that "ThinkPad H" identifier string to the
> > hdaps driver after all, as you proposed in the first place. I'm only
> > worried that the "H" suffix is really short, and I hope that no other
> > model not supported by the driver (or needing the invert option) will
> > ever have the same identifier. Time will tell.
>
> I am told that a newer BIOS of the Thinkpad R52 fixes the machine name
> in the DMI table.
> http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/List_of_DMI_IDs#R_series
> Can you please confirm this by upgrading the BIOS of your machine and
> removing the "ThinkPad H" entry from the hdaps driver?
BIOS 1.25 does indeed report "ThinkPad R52" instead of "ThinkPad H", and
hdaps without "ThinkPad H" works as expected.
Frank
>
> Thanks,
> --
> Jean Delvare
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