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Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2000 22:02:14 +0100
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
To: "John D. Kim" <johnkim@aslab.com>, Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: APM oops with Dell 5000e laptop
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Hi!

> > > Is there a way to uniquely identify the affected BIOSes at boot time and
> 
> > Im looking at one with some pointers from Dell. It won't be in 2.2.18 so its
> > quite likely a fixed BIOS will be out first anyway.
> 
> Wherever the fix comes from, I sure hope it comes soon, because it's
> getting harder and harder to find cpus for the original 5000 series.  And
> this new model's been sitting on my desk for couple of weeks now
> collecting dust.

Disable apm and be done with that!

I do not see why this is a problem. Just add comment to apm.c, there
are more comments about b0rken machines in there.
								Pavel
-- 
I'm pavel@ucw.cz. "In my country we have almost anarchy and I don't care."
Panos Katsaloulis describing me w.r.t. patents at discuss@linmodems.org
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