Re: acpi patch for dell laptop?

Hi,

> > doesn't work for several models.. Including Inspiron 7500.
> > WHo knows enough about this to be able to look at debug info
> > I have?
> 
> John Baldwin has posted a patch which worked for me on my Thinkpad
> 600X with the same "ACPI-0340" error.

I tried this patch, and while it does get rid of that particular error
message, I have a feeling it's (ACPI/the patch/or something) causing my
system to overheat, making it power down after a while. Funny thing is
that this only seems to happen while I'm in a dockingstation (ThinkPad
T21 + Dock). And with ACPI disabled, the machine refuses totally to
boot, it hangs at 'Mounting root from ...'. If I undock the machine, I
can boot with and without ACPI, with the latter option being the only
usable (stable) mode. 

/Eirik

> > 
> > My system gives lots of:
> > acpi_cpu: throttling enabled, 8 steps (100% to 12.5%), currently
> > 100.0%
> >     ACPI-0432: *** Error: Handler for [EmbeddedControl] returned
> > AE_ERROR
> >     ACPI-1287: *** Error: Method execution failed [\\_SB_.BAT1._STA]
> > (Node 0xc167ed60), AE_ERROR
> >     ACPI-0340: *** Error: Could not release ACPI Global Lock,
> > AE_BAD_PARAMETER
> >     ACPI-0340: *** Error: Could not release ACPI Global Lock,
> > AE_BAD_PARAMETER
> > ad0: 24207MB <IBM-DARA-225000> [49184/16/63] at ata0-master UDMA33
> >     ACPI-0340: *** Error: Could not release ACPI Global Lock,
> > AE_BAD_PARAMETER
> > acd0: DVD-ROM <TOSHIBA DVD-ROM SD-C2402> at ata1-master UDMA33
> > Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad0s4a
> >     ACPI-0340: *** Error: Could not release ACPI Global Lock,
> > AE_BAD_PARAMETER
> >     ACPI-0340: *** Error: Could not release ACPI Global Lock,
> > AE_BAD_PARAMETER
> >     ACPI-0340: *** Error: Could not release ACPI Global Lock,
> > AE_BAD_PARAMETER
> >     ACPI-0340: *** Error: Could not release ACPI Global Lock,
> > AE_BAD_PARAMETER
> > [...]
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > On Sun, 22 Jun 2003, Kenneth D. Merry wrote:
> > 
> > > On Sat, Jun 21, 2003 at 00:13:10 +0200, Stijn Hoop wrote:
> > > > On Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 05:29:30PM -0400, Mike Sturdee wrote:
> > > > > Where can I find the latest, greatest patch that fixes this?
> > > > 
> > > > Try this URL:
> > > > 
> > > > http://sandcat.nl/~stijn/freebsd/dell.php
> > > > 
> > > > and let me know if it works.
> > > 
> > > It seems to work for me.  The ACPI warnings about zero length
> > > buffers go away at least.
> > > 
> > > I've got a Dell Inspirion 8500, A03 BIOS.
> > > 
> > > Ken
> > > -- 
> > > Kenneth Merry
> > > ken_at_kdm.org
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