On Sat, Feb 12, 2005 at 09:02:50PM +0000, Wayne Stallwood wrote:
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.
A lot of the problems are caused by people using microsofts DSDT compiler, which does absoultely no bloody error checking, and lets you shoot yourself in the foot lots...
The Warranty thing is sad though, reminds me of my business partners Vaio
2 Months for a DVD is just not nice, is it ;)
Vaio, as in the makers of over-priced tat that falls apart if you sneeze about 6 miles away from it? :)
Cheers,