Re: ACPI regressions

From: David O'Brien <obrien_at_FreeBSD.Org>
Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 09:46:41 -0800
On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 03:35:25PM +0300, Mike Makonnen wrote:
> 
> I upgraded my laptop to 5.2-BETA from 5.1-RELEASE a few weeks ago and was
> extremely happy to find that acpi was working much better. However, after
> the recent upgrade of ACPI in 5.2-CURRENT, all the problems that had been
> fixed reappeared. My laptop is a Dell Inspiron 5100 with Dell BIOS A23.
> The symptoms are:
> o The acpi battery information is invalid
> o The acpi temperature information is invalid
> o The following message is repeated several times on the console when it boots:
>      -0166: *** Error: UtAllocate: Attempt to allocate zero bytes

Have you fixed your BIOS's ACPI?  There is a nice page for Dell laptops
at http://sandcat.nl/~stijn/freebsd/dell.php
Received on Wed Dec 10 2003 - 08:46:47 UTC

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