Hi!
> > > Is there a way to uniquely identify the affected BIOSes at boot time and
>
> > Im looking at one with some pointers from Dell. It won't be in 2.2.18 so its
> > quite likely a fixed BIOS will be out first anyway.
>
> Wherever the fix comes from, I sure hope it comes soon, because it's
> getting harder and harder to find cpus for the original 5000 series. And
> this new model's been sitting on my desk for couple of weeks now
> collecting dust.
Disable apm and be done with that!
I do not see why this is a problem. Just add comment to apm.c, there
are more comments about b0rken machines in there.
Pavel
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