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Date:      Thu, 15 May 2003 19:24:18 -0400
From:      Peter Radcliffe <pir@pir.net>
To:        freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: A30p BIOS updates?
Message-ID:  <20030515232418.GB14780@pir.net>
In-Reply-To: <20030515225230.AC4045D04@ptavv.es.net>
References:  <ba14tc$bh$1@main.gmane.org> <20030515225230.AC4045D04@ptavv.es.net>

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Kevin Oberman <oberman@es.net> probably said:
> Yes. There are a number of problems that are fixed in more recent BIOSes
> from IBM, especially the APM stuff works much better with a recent
> BIOS. I have seen no regression with the latest BIOS, but YMMV.

I havn't used ACPI but APM works better with the most recent BIOS for
my X30 (released a week or two ago, I think), so my experience matches
yours.

> You probably also want to get the latest PCDoctorDOS update. It does
> hardware diagnostics and comes as a group of floppy images.

Agreed. It's quite nifty.

\pir

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