Re: Re: uhoh, evil mojo ...

> Just grabbed the latest version.
> 
> RSD PTR found at 0xF7690
> checksum failed.
> OEM PTLTD 
> SMBIOS 2.31 present.
> DMI 0.0 present.
> 16 structures occupying 646 bytes.
> DMI table at 0x000D8010.

Impossible. I double-checked my code and dmidecode 2.1 just can't
display "DMI 0.0 present" anymore. It has been fixed one year ago!

> same results on the checksum failed bit.

I don't think the new version will change that (if the checksum is
really bad, dmidecode won't keep quiet) but you should have less bugs
and more output.

> Ok, so I guess I want to monitor all ACPI events and the current
> status of the ACPI controller?   I assume that the ACPI settings are
> what Sony is changing via the Windows Sony Setup utility.

Possible. Another possibility is /dev/nvram, but that would be more
obscure, of course.

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Jean Delvare
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