From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 9 20:16:43 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 999DE16A4CE for ; Fri, 9 Jul 2004 20:16:43 +0000 (GMT) Received: from bebop.inter-sonic.com (bebop.inter-sonic.com [212.247.8.106]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9948E43D41 for ; Fri, 9 Jul 2004 20:16:40 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from peo@intersonic.se) Received: from localhost (localhost.inter-sonic.com [127.0.0.1]) by bebop.inter-sonic.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 02B10A102B; Fri, 9 Jul 2004 22:16:37 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [172.16.2.147] (as9-2-1.bi.s.bonet.se [217.215.7.177]) by bebop.inter-sonic.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 53C1BA102A; Fri, 9 Jul 2004 22:16:32 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <40EEFD1D.3030903@intersonic.se> Date: Fri, 09 Jul 2004 22:16:29 +0200 From: Per olof Ljungmark User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040608 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bruce M Simpson References: <40EDB001.4311.E98BBCCC@localhost> <20040709013152.GR15368@empiric.dek.spc.org> In-Reply-To: <20040709013152.GR15368@empiric.dek.spc.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at inter-sonic.com X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on bebop.inter-sonic.com cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How's current lately for laptops? (was Two questions on Thinkpad T41) X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 09 Jul 2004 20:16:43 -0000 Bruce M Simpson wrote: > What I'd like to do next is for people with affected machines to run > acpidump, extract their DSDT, and then run md5 to at least establish > if they're different; and following on from THAT, to run iasl and diff > for possibly differing ACPI methods with regards to the CD-RW module. > > In the absence of detailed dumps, this is all I can think of right now. > > This gets us no further to a working hypothesis, but I'm posting this for > the sake of having more data to work from. Bruce, I am an idiot in terms of what you write above, would it make sense for you if I gave the machine a public IP and let you have access to it for checking the above? Alternatively due to my limited understanding I would probably need a little guidance. If it's just a row of commands then no problem. /per olof