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From: "Dana H. Myers" <dana.myers@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Alienware acpi problem
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Steve Kargl wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 03:05:38PM -0400, John Baldwin wrote:
>> You have some of the most incompetent BIOS writers I've ever seen working on 
>> your machine I'm afraid.
> 
> It's a Phoenix BIOS.

Actually, I don't think Phoenix gets all the blame.  I believe
that Phoenix provides a toolkit which board manufacturers customize.
So it's probably not Phoenix writing the bum ASL you're seeing.

Dana