Alienware acpi problem

[Steve Kargl]

On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 10:03:24AM -0700, Nate Lawson wrote:
> Dana H. Myers wrote:
> >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.
> 
> That's correct.  Phoenix produces a tool that has some example ASL.  The 
> Chinese/Taiwanese company that actually makes the laptop (e.g., Compal) 
> subcontracts out the BIOS customization to an small firm (2 guys) that 
> bang on it until it boots Windows.

Well, given the ASL that I put up at my website, is there
any hope of patching it?

-- 
Steve