Dell laptop users: please send me your acpi-support file!

[Dotan Cohen]

On 22/10/2007, Richard Bennett <richard.bennett at skynet.be> wrote:
> Updating the BIOS might help people having trouble with ACPI related
> things, I had to do it twice on mine, most recently to allow 2 gigs of ram
> instead of 1. It is pretty simple to do even from Linux, just download the
> file, (it is usually a .exe that unzips to an ISO, but I also found the
> already unzipped ISO by searching for the filename) burn it to a CD,
> restart the PC with F12 for the boot menu to select CD, that's about it.
>
> Richard.

On your advice I updated to the latest BIOS, with no improvement in
suspend. For archive diggers, here is an excellent article on how to
update Dell bios in Linux:
http://linux.dell.com/wiki/index.php/Tech/libsmbios

Dotan Cohen

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