Re: Acer Aspire 1644WLMi -CURRENT

On Mon, Sep 25, 2006 at 06:42:43PM +0100, Alexandre Vieira wrote:
> Hello folks,
> 
> I just went -CURRENT for the first time and everything seems fairly equal to
> 6.1-STABLE.
> 
> I have an Acer Aspire 1644WLMi.
> 
> ACPI doesn't seem to work very well. I have many messages in dmesg
> complaining about acpi.

Could you please run
acpidump -t -d > Acer_Aspire_1644WLMi.asl
and give a link to this file somewhere on the web?

This problem is well known, and I think FreeBSD will support your
laptop in the near future.  In the meantime we can workaround this
problem by modifiying a little the AML of the DSDT.

> I had kde working but since the upgrade it's broken. I've tried to recompile
> it but im having troubles compiling some ports (altough it seems application
> specific,, i.e pilot-link/libmal) . I did no change to my 6-stable kernel.
> 
> Is there anything I have to take in consideration in -CURRENT regarding
> compilations?
> 
> Also, does anyone know if an intel  high definition audio driver exists in
> -CURRENT? Nothing seems to grab the sound card and I cant find a suitable
> module for it.

I've heard there is one in developpment, but I let other to answer since
I don't know so much.

> 
> 
> I'm sorry for any eventual dumminess coming out of my fingers and thank you
> very much for your itme.
> 
> Regards,
> -- 
> Alexandre Vieira - nullpt_at_gmail.com


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