On Sun, Feb 22, 2004 at 01:38:33PM +0100, Jos Vos wrote: > On Sun, Feb 22, 2004 at 12:24:42PM +0000, Paul wrote: > .... > > ............ Remember, all a laptop is is a > > normal computer in a small case with more things on a single processor > > to save space. > > Winmodems are one issue. > > But: will the power management stuff and ACPI work? It should be noted that ACPI BIOS bugs are often worked around by hardware vendors in the MicroSoft packaged OSs. In fact MS encouraged the workaround to be only on the MS disk shipped by the vendor to the omission of BIOS updates. If you have problems with ACPI BIOS bugs thump on the hardware vendor for a BIOS update. Intel has been a good guy in the ACPI game, give a search on their web site. Hardware vendors do not share Beta hardware with the open source community. In part this is because there is no single point of contact and the open source process exposes new hardware plans "too soon". Thus the community has to play catch up.... Send the hardware vendor a snail mail letter letting them know that you are sad that you were unable to run Linux on your shinny new box. Let them know that you have shared your pain with friends who are now making purchasing decisions for boxes from other vendors (be honest, only the true parts, please). -- T o m M i t c h e l l mitch48-at-sbcglobal-dot-net
