Re: help with laptop purchase?



felmon davis wrote:
On Fri, 23 Jun 2006 22:55:00 -0500, Chris Cox wrote:

But it does require the dmi hack for the thing to reboot/shutdown...

I have an hp also. generally works well but acpi is, as you say, a bit of
a problem.

what is the 'dmi hack'?

Add reboot=b on your kernel boot line (menu.lst)


Felmon

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