Re: Laptops (APM) & 0040 crashes

Pavel Machek (pavel@elf.ucw.cz)
Sat, 21 Feb 1998 16:50:46 +0100


Hi!

> I tested this patch and it works! Without this patch, I was unable to
> enable the APM support on my Acer-Notebook. The only solution was flashing
> the bios with a hacked version...
>
> Dear Linus!
>
> Please include this patch in 2.0.34 and the 2.1.x-series. It can be found
> at

Please do not try to include this into 2.0.34. (Too dangerous). Please
take a look at 2.1.current, it is already included. It would be nice
to modify comments at begining of apm_bios.c to say that broken hw is
'supported' now.

Thanx for testing.
Pavel

-- 
I'm really pavel@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz. 	   Pavel
Look at http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/ ;-).

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