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Date:      Thu, 30 Oct 2003 21:10:17 -0800
From:      Jeremy Bingham <jeremy@satanosphere.com>
To:        Nate Lawson <nate@root.org>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Problem w/ ACPI in -CURRENT: Update
Message-ID:  <20031031051017.GA2792@lagash.satanosphere.com>
In-Reply-To: <20031029181506.E86230@root.org>
References:  <20030930144703.W81965@root.org> <20030930220658.GA51513@lagash.satanosphere.com> <20030930150239.R81965@root.org> <20031001162256.GB55082@lagash.satanosphere.com> <20031001092939.J85056@root.org> <20031001170457.GA55275@lagash.satanosphere.com> <20031029181506.E86230@root.org>

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On 29/10/03 18:18 -0800, Nate Lawson wrote:
>=20
> I looked at a few other ASL copies I have and you have an old version.
> Have you done a BIOS update recently?
>=20
> Yours:  OEMID=3DDELL, OEM Table ID=3DCPi R, OEM Revision=3D0x27d0040b,
> Others: OEMID=3DDELL, OEM Table ID=3DCPi R, OEM Revision=3D0x27d20b07,
> Others: OEMID=3DDELL, OEM Table ID=3DCPi R, OEM Revision=3D0x27d3050f,
>=20
> Update your BIOS and then do acpidump -t to verify your revision is the
> latest.
>=20
> -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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