Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 18 Dec 2008 06:53:54 +0000 | From | Nick Warne <> | Subject | Re: i8k: fails to detect Dell XPS M1530, fails to get SMM BIOS |
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> > On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 7:34 PM, Andrew Paprocki <andrew@ishiboo.com> wrote: > > > I see two problems with the i8k module and the Dell XPS M1530. First, > > > the laptop is not detected. Second, even if it is detected, the module > > > prints that it is unable to get the SMM BIOS version even though the > > > module appears to be working: > > > > It appears that the Dell Vostro & Precision series have the same issue > > and the driver was never updated for those as well. Patches were > > submitted back in 2007-11 and 2008-04 respectively: > > > > http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=119401935026583&w=2 > > http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=120822526223412&w=2 > > Thanks, I picked up all three (much to various people's surprise, I expect). > > > The same message prints for (at least one of) those as well: > > > > i8k: unable to get SMM BIOS version > > hm. But the driver works OK anyway?
I put in a patch once for the Dell MM061 (UK Inspiron model) with similar issues:
http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/12/7/121
If the module doesn't recognise the version model, you have to use 'force=1'... and if that works, you still get the 'unable to detect SMM BIOS version' message.
But all appears to function fine with the patches to include version models.
Nick -- Free Software Foundation Associate Member 5508
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