RE: ACPI results Inspiron 8000

Hi

If you just looking for working acpi with your inspiron 8000 then try this patches at 
http://sandcat.nl/~stijn/freebsd/dell.php. It works for me with -current. 

regards
Thomas Vogt

>Hi,
>
>I've done some testing with acpi:
>S1 level -> does not blank the display.
>S2 level -> unsupported by the BIOS
>S3/S4 level -> reboot the machine, with at best a print_cpu debug statement=
>[1]
>s5 level -> works as expected
>
>[1] I've pressed 'pause' and copied it for anybody that wants the register=
>=20
>dump
>
>I've set the dump device and dumpdir, but no dumps are created - it's a reb=
>oot=20
>without a panic apparently.
>
>Attached are:
>* dmesg.boot
>* Kernel config
>* acpidump output
>* loader.conf
>* S1 run output (the only way to wake-up is to 'open the lid')
>* oids.start: relevant oids