On Saturday 12 February 2005 7:32 pm, Brett Parker wrote:
Acer are much better now? Hrm, not convinced, they still have very broken DSDT tables. I can't for instance get the battery status out of my laptop in linux due to the DSDT table not declaring where Z005 should go, which is nice. Also, the warrenty repairs take forever to actually happen, with a consistent claiming of "We're waiting on parts".
(Otherwise, I'm very happy with my Acer Aspire 1513LMi, hug that amd64 goodness ;)
A fair point but then I have yet to see any laptop with a fully functional ACPI implementation, the general method seems to be bugger the ACPI spec and implement just enough to get the thing working in Windows.
The Warranty thing is sad though, reminds me of my business partners Vaio