[tlinux-users 00208] Re: Toshiba Satellite U400-138 and ACPI issues

[Thomas Charron]

On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 8:48 AM, Ilyes Gouta <ilyes.gouta at gmail.com> wrote:
> Yeah.. They just could easily fix the situation by releasing all the
> relevant documentation and let the community do the job for them (and
> for free!). They don't seem to understand that there are users out
> there who using Linux for their day to day work and as such they need
> a 100% functional and reliable machine for Linux. Now, all the
> problems I have seen (at least for my model) are related to the
> Phoenix BIOS, so may be that why it's taking them so long to react
> since they have to go through a third party first before being able to
> release anything (software/documentation), naturally, this is if they
> aren't considering such an information as a trade secret, private and
> not available for the general consumption.

  It's not a time related issue.  Many, MANY people reported issues
with the P105-9722 and other variants of the P105.  They STILL haven't
released anything that fixes the BIOS to function, and it's been 3
years.  Hence why when my current one dies, I'll go buy another brand.

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-- Thomas