On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 06:36:31PM +0100, Salvo Tomaselli wrote: > > I'm not part of the nvram-wakeup maintenance team, so I won't make the > > call, but I do wonder whether this is truly a grave problem in the > > sense that it renders the package unusable for everyone or whether it > > is a case of not supporting all possible motherboards (which is > > a bug, but not a grave one). > To get the message that the motherboard is not supported i had to recompile > my > kernel in order to allow access to /dev/mem, which was restricted by default > by the kernel itself.
Interesting. My motherboard is not supported, yet I got that message without recompiling the kernel. st...@riemann{~}sudo nvram-wakeup nvram-wakeup: Your mainboard is currently not supported. nvram-wakeup: Please try determining the addresses and sending the following nvram-wakeup: information back to the maintainers: nvram-wakeup: - The addresses you found out (read README.mb) nvram-wakeup: - Mainboard vendor: "ASUSTeK Computer INC." nvram-wakeup: - Mainboard type: "P5Q-E" nvram-wakeup: - Mainboard revision: "Rev 1.xx" nvram-wakeup: - BIOS vendor: "American Megatrends Inc." nvram-wakeup: - BIOS version: "0605" nvram-wakeup: - BIOS release: "06/03/2008" st...@riemann{~}uname -a Linux riemann 2.6.32-5-amd64 #1 SMP Thu Nov 25 18:02:11 UTC 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux It is the stock linux-image-2.6.32-5-amd64 package. Cheers, -Steve
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