Re: 5.2Current: ACPI: tables not found on Intel AL44LX

On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 12:00:17PM -0800, Dorin H wrote:
> 
> --- Doug White <dwhite_at_gumbysoft.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, 16 Dec 2003, Dorin H wrote:
> > 
> > >  I know that probably many machines (espeacially
> > old
> > > ones, like mine) fail to work with ACPI. 
> > Nevertheless
> > > I would be happy to play  with/test it, or at
> > least
> > > understand what happens, if I'll be able to make
> > it
> > > move.
> > 
> > In your case, it is not supported in any way.
> 
> I have sent the previous email in the hope that I
> could find more about "how" it is not supported:). I
> see it doesn't work for now :)
> 
> > Don't
> > try to load ACPI since
> > it will never work, unless there is a BIOS update
> > for your system to, say,
> > add Win2k compatibility.
> > 
> Ok, ok, according to this page,
> 
> http://home.earthlink.net/~billselk/al440lx/bios.html
> 
> the support for ACPI (partial, broken, or complete - I
> really want to find out) is supported from version 11
> of the BIOS.  My computer came with 11, but I hoped
> that the last release (18, that page is outdated) will
> support better the ACPI.  It is just that I am
> tracking the current on this old machine, and of
> course I would like to try all the goodies :). Maybe
> do some testing one day:)
> 

I haev seen old machines where you have to enable acpi
via a bios option, but YMMV.

Cheers,


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