Gerhard Gappmeier wrote:
Hi,
has anyone LinuxBIOS running on an Acer TravelMate 660 laptop? Or can tell me if it will work? I'm a LinuxBIOS newbie, but I hope the following information can help.
LinuxBIOS on laptops is a mess that we're only beginning to jump into. Laptops have an embedded controller, sometimes referred to as an EC, that can control everything from power to LCD control, etc, etc. The docs on these are usually covered by an NDA, with one real exception: the part used by OLPC's XO. See also http://www.linuxbios.org/Laptop
As for the rest of your hardware, I think some work was being done on the i855, but I don't know what the outcome of it was. The i82801dbm should work, either through the regular or generic implementation. You haven't listed the Super IO, so I can't tell if that would work or not, but there's a list of supported hardware on the LinuxBIOS wiki. The rest of the hardware can be dealt with later, although in a perfect world it should Just Work.
-Corey