On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 12:48:59PM -0800, Nate Lawson wrote: > On Wed, 10 Dec 2003, 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 > > Try reverting sys/contrib/dev/acpica/dsmthdat.c to rev 1.1.1.17 > Then compile/boot with a new acpi.ko. I have a feeling there are still a > lot of reference problems in AML that acpi-ca doesn't handle. Reverting the file didn't make any difference (but see my previous reply to obrien_at_). I don't know if this means my laptop's acpi is buggy or if the acpi code is buggy (or both), but if there's any chance of figuring out what caused the regressions, here's the information you asked for. My dmesg: http://people.freebsd.org/~mtm/mobile.dmesg.v Original acpi ASL: http://people.freebsd.org/~mtm/mobile.asl Patched acpi ASL: http://people.freebsd.org/~mtm/mobile.asl.patched Cheers. -- Mike Makonnen | GPG-KEY: http://www.identd.net/~mtm/mtm.asc mtm_at_identd.net | Fingerprint: 00E8 61BC 0D75 7FFB E4D3 6BF1 B239 D010 3215 D418 mtm_at_FreeBSD.Org| FreeBSD - Unleash the Daemon !Received on Thu Dec 11 2003 - 04:50:47 UTC
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