Re: Re: uhoh, evil mojo ...

On Wed, 2003-08-06 at 12:37, Jean Delvare wrote:

> 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!
> 

Gaaah..  This is what I get for using a mixed distribution.   It had the
previous version of dmidecode located in more than one place.  Once I
got rid of the second it displayed everything right -- and a lot more
information.  Great!
Although I'm now getting DMI Type 0, 20 bytes.

> 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.
> 

bug didn't show up this time.

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

Of course..  time for me to learn more!