On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 09:46:41AM -0800, David O'Brien wrote: > 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 Interestingly when I tried it with 5.1-RELEASE (acpi not working well) and 5.2-BETA (acpi working well) it didn't make any difference. When I tried it again after the acpi import, it fixed my problems: o temperature information is good o batter information is good o I no longer get the UtAllocate errors 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 - 04:50:58 UTC
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