Re: ACPI problems with HEAD and IBM ThinkPad T23

> Matthew Emmerton wrote:
> > I cvsup'd from 5.0-R to HEAD and enabled ACPI to see if anything had
changed
> > in the past 6 months.
> > Indeed, things have, and a few workarounds I had implemented before were
no
> > longer needed.
> >
> > However, I still got a host of errors from ACPI upon boot, and some
hacks to
> > device.hints were still neccessary to keep my laptop functional through
a
> > boot.
> >
> > Attached are my device.hints file and a copy of the dmesg.
> >
> > In particular, the things that bother me are:
> > 1) All of the "Method execution failed" errors
>
> As was mentioned in another post, there are many problems and solutions
> being discussed on the acpi lists.  Posting your ASL to those lists
> might help.

What are the lists that I should post to?

> > 2) The fact that I have to have a device.hints entry in order to see
console
> > message upon boot.  (Without this, my system boots up silently and after
> > about 30 seconds, displays the familiar login prompt.)
>
> This is The Way Things Work.  Logial device attachments are no longer
> compiled into the kernel in 5.x by default (see the entry in GENERIC
> about this), so you need to define those attachments in the device.hints
> file.

Ah, ok.  I walked right into this one.  I disliked the idea of device.hints
(and didn't really understand the overriding concept thereof) so I trashed
it and made a "minimal" version.  In my case, the minimal version requires
entries for sc0 and fd0.

--
Matt Emmerton