martin f. krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Michael Dell and Bill Gates are sleeping with each other. dell's > computers these days seem to contain components and standards which > are close enough to e.g. ACPI to be called ACPI, but they only > really work with windoze. surprised?
*snort* Not at all. I don't even remember what it was I was trying to get out of it. I know I've basically never gotten acknowledgement that my laptop *had* batteries when I've tried using ACPI. >> (4) I'd like to be able to use both the normal serial port and the >> IR port (the latter mostly to connect to an iPAQ also running >> Linux). The obvious thing to do is configure the DB9 serial to >> be COM1 and the IR to be COM2 in the BIOS, but then there seems >> to be an interrupt conflict resulting in the machine freezing >> if both sound and (wired) serial are used at the same time. Is >> there any way to get this working properly? > > what's the sound hardware? lspci says "Multimedia audio controller: ESS Technology ES1983S Maestro-3i PCI Audio Accelerator (rev 10)"; I use the ALSA snd-card-maestro3 driver with it. -- David Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://people.debian.org/~dmaze/ "Theoretical politics is interesting. Politicking should be illegal." -- Abra Mitchell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
