On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 09:23:44AM +0700, arief# wrote: > Dear All, > > > I've been tinkering around with ACPI on my T30 laptop. > Got it works for everything that suppose to work (Thermal, Fan, > AC/Battery, even got cpufreq just fine). > > I've even use iasl to dump and test compile the aml. No errors no > warnings. So I guess, My DSDT is fine.
Maybe yes, maybe no. Hard to tell. > But, my head already got used to the term Power Management as a way for > me to have (at least) suspend to work on my machine. > > Which, till now, I can't get ACPI to suspend nicely. > Suspend to RAM don't put my backlight off. I tried Suspend-to-Disk > feature, it was nice for a couple of time. Until I realize it doesn't > update hwclock where it should. I guess you are using S1 for suspend to ram. Well, S1 is 'standby', not suspend-to-ram, and it is expected that at least for that one DPMS is used. > And my xfs filesystem gone mad after a while. Which bring another > headache for me, because I put boot and root on same partition, It's not > that easy to just xfs_repair my root partition right? Fortunately, I > always keeps knoppix around. > > One other thing, what is ECDT? Embedded Controller Description Table. See current ACPI spec. at http://www.acpi.info/ > I got these messages about it: > ACPI: Could not use ECDT > ACPI-1120: *** Error: Method execution failed > [\_SB_.PCI0.LPC_.FDC_._INI] (Node c12c0de0), AE_NOT_EXIST > ACPI-1120: *** Error: Method execution failed > [\_SB_.PCI0.LPC_.EC__._INI] (Node c12c8be0), AE_NOT_EXIST > ACPI-1120: *** Error: Method execution failed There were an ancient bug, but that should be OK now. If that still persist, that is indication of an old BIOS, look at http://www.poupinou.org/acpi/ibm_ecdt.html if you need a patch to workaround this, but before be sure to have the latest BIOS from IBM. -- Bruno Ducrot -- Which is worse: ignorance or apathy? -- Don't know. Don't care.
