From owner-freebsd-current Thu Nov 21 8:15:14 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 60BEA37B404 for ; Thu, 21 Nov 2002 08:15:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from jawa.at (inforum.at [213.229.17.146]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3933543E9E for ; Thu, 21 Nov 2002 08:15:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mbretter@jawa.at) Received: from jawa.at (dings.jawa.at [192.168.200.60]) by jawa.at (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gALGEdDc095128; Thu, 21 Nov 2002 17:14:40 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from mbretter@jawa.at) Message-ID: <3DDD0671.9010402@jawa.at> Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2002 17:14:41 +0100 From: Michael Bretterklieber Organization: JAWA Management Software GmbH User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de-AT; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826 X-Accept-Language: de-at, de, en, en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mitsuru IWASAKI Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG, acpi-jp@jp.freebsd.org Subject: Re: recommended VAIO for ACPI hacking (Re: cvs commit: www/en/releases/5.0R todo.sgml) References: <20021121.223545.26269929.iwasaki@jp.FreeBSD.org> <20021121144730.GA12835@tara.freenix.org> <20021122.010745.71546381.iwasaki@jp.FreeBSD.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-milter (http://amavis.org/) X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.6 required=5.0 tests=NOSPAM_INC,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES,SPAM_PHRASE_00_01, TO_BE_REMOVED_REPLY,USER_AGENT,USER_AGENT_MOZILLA_UA, X_ACCEPT_LANG version=2.43 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, I have an VAIO FX601, and ACPI never worked. I get a lot of errors related to ACPI during boot and acpidump also prints errors. After suspending the laptop, the system never wakes-up, display still stays black. So this ACPI BIOS seems to be completely buggy, bye, Mitsuru IWASAKI schrieb: > [moved to current@ and acpi-jp@jp] > > Hi, > > >>According to Mitsuru IWASAKI: >> >>>If your ACPI BIOS check OS type (try; acpidump | grep _OS_), you might >>>need to do something. The black list feature (for non-Windows) might be >>>good idea for avoiding confusion. >> >>Will try tonite when I'll have my laptop. > > > Thanks. > > >>>Also, development resources are limited. For example, none of ACPI >>>developers has VAIO. >> >>Well, I don't know enough to be a developper but I do have a VAIO (Z600TEK) >>and can test things. Just ask. > > > BTW, I'm planning to buy VAIO (maybe used one) to improve ACPI support. > Any recommendations? > # Recommendation means some sort of `Sigh! My VAIO doesn't work with > # ACPI at all!!' :-) > > Thanks > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message -- ------------------------------- ---------------------------------- Michael Bretterklieber - Michael.Bretterklieber@jawa.at JAWA Management Software GmbH - http://www.jawa.at Liebenauer Hauptstr. 200 -------------- privat ------------ A-8041 GRAZ GSM: ++43-(0)676-93 96 698 Tel: ++43-(0)316-403274-12 E-mail: mbretter@inode.at Fax: ++43-(0)316-403274-10 http://www.inode.at/mbretter ------------------------------- ---------------------------------- "...the number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected..." - Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson, June 1972 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message