Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (1570 mails)

[Joerg Mayer <jmayer@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 08:05:21AM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 07:53:43AM -0800, Roger Luedecke wrote:
> > Yeah, it does look like this is the best solution for now. Any hope on some 
> > sort of upstream fix coming down?
>
> Again, no, there is nothing the kernel can do, it is a broken BIOS you
> are dealing with, please push your vendor to provide an updated, fixed,
> one.

Dislaimer: IIRC, both points below are from phoronix.

At least one vendor has already declared that they see no need to
fix this as it works on Windows.
There is something that can be done: "Fix" the drivers individually to
turn on the powersaving.

Ciao
     Joerg

PS: Is geek a bad word nowadays?

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Joerg Mayer                                           <jmayer@xxxxxxxxx>
We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that
works. Some say that should read Microsoft instead of technology.
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