Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751172AbVKWPxj (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Nov 2005 10:53:39 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751150AbVKWPxi (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Nov 2005 10:53:38 -0500 Received: from webbox4.loswebos.de ([213.187.93.205]:11418 "EHLO webbox4.loswebos.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751145AbVKWPxD (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Nov 2005 10:53:03 -0500 Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 16:53:20 +0100 From: Marc Koschewski To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Entering BIOS on DELL mobiles - does the kernel prohibit? Message-ID: <20051123155319.GA6970@stiffy.osknowledge.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline X-PGP-Fingerprint: D514 7DC1 B5F5 8989 083E 38C9 5ECF E5BD 3430 ABF5 X-PGP-Key: http://www.osknowledge.org/~marc/pubkey.asc X-Operating-System: Linux stiffy 2.6.15-rc2-marc User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 715 Lines: 17 Hi all, first of all, if someone could point me to some information on that topic, I would be glad. I didn't find anything on Google. The 'problem' is: I remember being able to enter the DELL Inspiron BIOS from a running X session (or console) some (long) time ago. I just noticed, it no longer works. Does the kernel somehow prohibit to enter the BIOS or does the laptop itself stop from doing so (maybe due to a BIOS update). Thank you for any feedback, Marc - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/