[nflug] POS BIOS

[Robert Meyer]

You know, I have this Dell XPS laptop that everything just works, too.  I loaded Mandriva 2008 on it and everything was there.  Just had to download the firmware for the wireless but that happened automatically when I opened the configuration manager to set it up.  It has a 2G Centrino, 2G memory, 100G drive and nVidia GeForce Go 6800 Ultra running 1920x1200.  The thing ROCKS.  Unfortunately, it's owned by the company I work for.  It even has bluetooth in it.  I just have to figure out how to use bluetooth.  It even does the right things when I close the lid or suspend to disk.

I know Pete hates Dell laptops but this one is pretty nice.

Cheers!

Bob
 
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"When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return."
   --Leonardo da Vinci

----- Original Message ----
From: Dennis Ruzeski <denniruz at gmail.com>
To: nflug at nflug.org
Sent: Friday, December 14, 2007 9:50:00 AM
Subject: Re: [nflug] POS BIOS


I'll tell you what I like for linux laptops-- Thinkpads! I've had 4 of
them and every bit of hardware worked and the bios is like a desktop
bios.  My latest is a Z61m and I even got the fingerprint scanner to
work.

Just my $.02

Happy Holidays,

Dennis

On Dec 14, 2007 9:30 AM, Robert Meyer <meyer_rm at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> I don't have any help for this but would you mind letting us know
 what kind
> of laptop this thing is so that we can all avoid them?
>
> Cheers!
>
> Bob
>  --
> "When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth
 with your
> eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will
 always long
> to return."
>  --Leonardo da Vinci
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Cyber Source <peter at thecybersource.com>
> To: nflug at nflug.org
> Sent: Friday, December 14, 2007 9:21:42 AM
> Subject: [nflug] POS BIOS
>
>  Ok, gotta throw one out for some help.
>   Long story short is, I have a laptop that I just purchased for a
> client, has nvidia and runs perfect with Ubuntu Gutsy except for 1
> little (kinda huge) problem.
>   The bios that ships with most laptops lately , COMPLETELY SUCK  (I
> hate phoenix). There is absolutely NOTHING in the bios to help
 control
> acpi or apic. My problem is that I have NO SOUND unless I boot with
 the
> kernel boot option of "acpi=off", then all works perfect except I
 have
> no battery monitoring, which on a laptop is pretty huge, if this was
 a
> desktop, it would be no biggie (not sure if it would affect ups
> monitoring). I notice that I have ERR=1 from /proc/interrupts. I have
> tried all sorts of combinations of boot options, including "noapic
> nolapic pnpbios=off" and I forget the rest I've tried, nothing works
> except for turning off acpi completely and then no battery monitor.
 I've
> looked into apm but can't recompile the kernel because then all the
> other "restricted" packages won't work with the custom kernel and
 that
> option is basically a pain in the ass. I feel this is probably
 related
> to the ERR=1 from interrupts but I can't seem to clear this, it only
> gets worse with other boot options I've tried.
> Does anyone know how to reroute irq's or make them behave better (yes
> I've tried pci=routeirq)?
> Has anyone else had this problem and found a solution?
> Currently my work around is 2 grub boot stanza's, one is to have
 sound
> which runs "acpi=off" and the other is to have no sound and
 everything
> else works (battery monitor), without the "acpi=off" option.
> Any help please? TIA
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