In the last episode (Jun 10), Stijn Hoop said: > On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 03:42:18PM +0200, Thorsten Greiner wrote: > > some time ago several people (including me) reported ACPI related problems > > on various Dell laptops resulting in error messages of the form > > > > ACPI-0293: *** Warning: Buffer created with zero length in AML > > This is due to the Dell laptops having an invalid ACPI table in the BIOS. > The only way to avoid these messages is to tell FreeBSD ACPI to override > the vendor supplied table with a correct one. > > Mark Santcroos developed a patch which worked on his C640 and my Inspiron > 4150, which you can find attached. Here are the steps to use it: This patch fixes a -current hang on bootup and misdetection of the serial ports on my Dell CP. thanks! -- Dan Nelson dnelson_at_allantgroup.comReceived on Tue Jun 10 2003 - 20:24:38 UTC
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