Re: Problem w/ ACPI in -CURRENT: Update

From: Jeremy Bingham <jeremy_at_satanosphere.com>
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 21:10:17 -0800
On 29/10/03 18:18 -0800, Nate Lawson wrote:
> 
> I looked at a few other ASL copies I have and you have an old version.
> Have you done a BIOS update recently?
> 
> Yours:  OEMID=DELL, OEM Table ID=CPi R, OEM Revision=0x27d0040b,
> Others: OEMID=DELL, OEM Table ID=CPi R, OEM Revision=0x27d20b07,
> Others: OEMID=DELL, OEM Table ID=CPi R, OEM Revision=0x27d3050f,
> 
> Update your BIOS and then do acpidump -t to verify your revision is the
> latest.
> 
> -Nate

Success! I updated my BIOS from A05 to A14, and -CURRENT works
beautifully. I only wish that I had read this email a few hours earlier,
before I got frustrated and decided to give Debian a shot on this
laptop.

Happily running FreeBSD again,

-j

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