From owner-freebsd-current Thu Jan 16 6:44:23 2003 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 3173F37B401 for ; Thu, 16 Jan 2003 06:44:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from ztxmail03.ztx.compaq.com (ztxmail03.ztx.compaq.com [161.114.1.207]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6417843EB2 for ; Thu, 16 Jan 2003 06:44:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from john.cagle@hp.com) Received: from cceexg12.americas.cpqcorp.net (cceexg12.americas.cpqcorp.net [16.110.250.124]) by ztxmail03.ztx.compaq.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0CB243BC8; Thu, 16 Jan 2003 08:44:21 -0600 (CST) Received: from cceexc19.americas.cpqcorp.net ([16.110.250.85]) by cceexg12.americas.cpqcorp.net with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.2966); Thu, 16 Jan 2003 08:44:20 -0600 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.0.6249.0 content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: RE: bad ACPL asl's on motherboards Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2003 08:44:20 -0600 Message-ID: X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: bad ACPL asl's on motherboards Thread-Index: AcK9aL3NTXZEBhxaQuyZqCqpfY7t1QABL5mA From: "Cagle, John (ISS-Houston)" To: "Joel M. Baldwin" , X-OriginalArrivalTime: 16 Jan 2003 14:44:20.0571 (UTC) FILETIME=[C0EE1AB0:01C2BD6D] 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 You might ask that question on the ACPI development list. I think there are several people who have contributed patched ASL's for machines that are broken. Here's a link: Acpi-devel mailing list Acpi-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/acpi-devel > -----Original Message----- > From: Joel M. Baldwin [mailto:qumqats@outel.org]=20 > Sent: Thursday, January 16, 2003 8:08 AM > To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: bad ACPL asl's on motherboards >=20 >=20 >=20 > I gather that there are quite a few Motherboards with bad=20 > ACPI asl's on them. I know that my Abit BP6 sure has=20 > problems. As a result I can't run ACPI. >=20 > What are those of us with these motherboards supposed to to? >=20 > I realize that we can use acpidump to get the asl, correct=20 > it, and then recompile it using iasl from the acpicatools=20 > port, to generate the aml that can be used during boot. >=20 > acpi_dsdt_load=3D"YES" # DSDT Overriding > acpi_dsdt_name=3D"/boot/abitBP6.aml" > # Override DSDT in BIOS by this file >=20 > But this doesn't help me much since I don't know what=20 > corrections to make to the original asl file. Nor does it=20 > help the other people out there using BP6's. >=20 > Is someone going to create a asl erratica web page? > How about something to help us correct our asl files like a FAQ? >=20 >=20 >=20 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message >=20 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message