Re: ACPI Regression in -CURRENT?

2003-06-11 Thread Terry Lambert
Stijn Hoop wrote: This is due to the Dell laptops having an invalid ACPI table in the BIOS. The only way to avoid these messages is to tell FreeBSD ACPI to override the vendor supplied table with a correct one. Alternately, since Microsoft works just peachy with this thing, it's somewhat

Re: ACPI Regression in -CURRENT?

2003-06-11 Thread Harald Hanche-Olsen
+ Stijn Hoop [EMAIL PROTECTED]: | Hi Thorsten, | | On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 03:42:18PM +0200, Thorsten Greiner wrote: | some time ago several people (including me) reported ACPI related problems | on various Dell laptops resulting in error messages of the form | | ACPI-0293: ***

Re: ACPI Regression in -CURRENT?

2003-06-11 Thread Stijn Hoop
On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 08:18:26PM +0200, Harald Hanche-Olsen wrote: + Stijn Hoop [EMAIL PROTECTED]: | Hi Thorsten, | | On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 03:42:18PM +0200, Thorsten Greiner wrote: | some time ago several people (including me) reported ACPI related problems | on various Dell

Re: ACPI Regression in -CURRENT?

2003-06-11 Thread Harald Hanche-Olsen
+ Stijn Hoop [EMAIL PROTECTED]: | I tried that on my Inspiron 4150 with 5.1-RELEASE. The patch failed, | but only for trivial reasons like different placment of braces. | | Note that you have to patch the output of iasl -d, *NOT* the .asl file | that acpidump generates. There is a difference

Re: ACPI Regression in -CURRENT?

2003-06-11 Thread Stijn Hoop
On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 12:46:32AM +0200, Harald Hanche-Olsen wrote: + Stijn Hoop [EMAIL PROTECTED]: | I tried that on my Inspiron 4150 with 5.1-RELEASE. The patch failed, | but only for trivial reasons like different placment of braces. | | Note that you have to patch the output of

Re: ACPI Regression in -CURRENT?

2003-06-11 Thread Stijn Hoop
On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 11:38:18PM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote: Stijn Hoop wrote: This is due to the Dell laptops having an invalid ACPI table in the BIOS. The only way to avoid these messages is to tell FreeBSD ACPI to override the vendor supplied table with a correct one. Alternately,

Re: ACPI Regression in -CURRENT?

2003-06-11 Thread Kevin Oberman
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 01:12:06 +0200 From: Stijn Hoop [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 12:46:32AM +0200, Harald Hanche-Olsen wrote: + Stijn Hoop [EMAIL PROTECTED]: | I tried that on my Inspiron 4150 with 5.1-RELEASE. The patch failed, | but only

ACPI Regression in -CURRENT?

2003-06-10 Thread Thorsten Greiner
Hi everyone, some time ago several people (including me) reported ACPI related problems on various Dell laptops resulting in error messages of the form ACPI-0293: *** Warning: Buffer created with zero length in AML During the 5.1 release process these problems have been temporarily

Re: ACPI Regression in -CURRENT?

2003-06-10 Thread Stijn Hoop
Hi Thorsten, On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 03:42:18PM +0200, Thorsten Greiner wrote: some time ago several people (including me) reported ACPI related problems on various Dell laptops resulting in error messages of the form ACPI-0293: *** Warning: Buffer created with zero length in AML

Re: ACPI Regression in -CURRENT?

2003-06-10 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jun 10), Stijn Hoop said: On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 03:42:18PM +0200, Thorsten Greiner wrote: some time ago several people (including me) reported ACPI related problems on various Dell laptops resulting in error messages of the form ACPI-0293: *** Warning: