Inspiron 8500

Robert Brimhall rbrimhal at bellsouth.net
Fri Sep 26 18:48:54 UTC 2003


Michael K. Johnson wrote:

>On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 01:44:35PM -0400, rbrimhal at bellsouth.net wrote:
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>>Just wondering if any efforts were being made to address the Inspiron's problems with ACPI, DSDT, etc... there are several sites showing the difficulties faced by i8500 owners and RH9... just hoping Fedora will address some of these before the official release...
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>Well, ACPI is off by default in test2...
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Will it be able to be turned on by appending acpi=on to grub? I think 
the AC Kernel sources have addressed many of these problems but will 
Fedora go the extra mile to keep hardware support top-notch as it has 
been for Red Hat in the past?

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Robert Brimhall







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