Re: FBSD 5.1b2 Inst. Results on Dell i8500

From: Stijn Hoop <stijn_at_win.tue.nl>
Date: Thu, 22 May 2003 22:14:52 +0200
On Thu, May 22, 2003 at 10:00:11PM +0200, Mark Santcroos wrote:
> On Thu, May 22, 2003 at 09:51:03PM +0200, Stijn Hoop wrote:
> > I am sitting in front of an Inspiron 4150 with these symptoms right now.
> > How can I dump my ASL and patch this to test this option?
> 
> Install the devel/acpicatools port.

Great, but it doesn't work. Here's what I did:

> Use acpidump to extract the raw dsdt/aml file.

# acpidump -o insp4150.dsdt > insp4150.asl

> Use iasl to disassemble it to an asl file.

# iasl -d insp4150.dsdt

> Patch the asl file and compile it back to an aml.

See attached diff for what I did.

> Use the following in loader.conf to override your system dsdt:
> acpi_dsdt_load="YES"
> acpi_dsdt_name="/boot/acpi_dsdt.aml" 

# cp DSDT.aml /boot/acpi_dsdt.aml
# vi /boot/loader.conf (and add the above lines).

For the result, see attached dmesg.

Anything else that you need, I can provide.

--Stijn

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