support for asus M6N(e) laptops

[Vincent Untz]

Le lundi 21 mars 2005 à 16:36 +0000, Matthew Garrett a écrit :
> On Mon, 2005-03-21 at 14:52 +0100, 84yelo3 wrote:
> 
> > There is a kernel patch that makes acpi parser compatible with asus bios 
> > (buggy):
> > http://m6n.ath.cx/aml_method_exec_hack.patch
> > a new kernel package could be compiled with this patch.
> 
> Alternatively, Asus could be asked to fix their broken BIOSes.

Asus has been asked to fix their BIOS by a lot of people. I once wrote
to Asus France and they said me they only supported Windows...

There's even a petition:
http://www.petitiononline.com/M6NBIOS/petition.html

I agree that multiple kernel packages is not a solution, though.

Vincent

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