hal does not detect laptop information with kernel 2.6.21

[Richard Hughes]

On Mon, 2007-05-21 at 19:05 +1000, James Utter wrote:
> Here is a notable extract from the output of lshal. Why arent the
> details detected by hal on the 2.6.21 kernel? In the attachment you
> will notice that there are many acpi devices in the 2.6.20 version,
> but not .21 

With the new kernel, do you get output from dmidecode?

Richard.