On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 1:43 PM, Debarshi Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> We work around it but is the BIOS not the culprit in such cases? I am > >> not saying that GNU won't load on these machines. > > > GNU will not load on *any* machine - you need a kernel for that > > As a matter of fact, GNU *does* load, and I happen to use a couple of > such machines. You didn't get it,Kenneth is differentiating between GNU which is the Application layer and Linux which is the kernel,but now let's not get into flamewar territory. I got only one entry: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dmesg|grep MSFT [ 0.000000] ACPI: DSDT (v001 ATI AWRDACPI 0x00001000 MSFT 0x0100000e) @ 0x00000000 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ What does that mean? Regards, Easwar -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers