Well, let's see. X wouldn't use all 1024x768 of the display until I
updated the bios. Battery life went from 1:30 to 2:30. Lid events started
working. Stuff like that. I think the statement you made about bios was
true 7 years ago but not today, especially with shared memory architecture
and ACPI power management.

Cheerful regards,

Bob

>> 2. Dell laptops do have bios updates, and in my case it made a huge
>> difference to my linux installation but had no visible effect on the
>> Windows side.
>
> Hmm, that's interesting.  What kind of effect do you mean?  Linux only
> uses the BIOS for information purposes when the kernel is booting.
> Outside of that, the BIOS is pretty much ignored.  DOSEMU and WINE would
> be exceptions.


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