Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 13:52:09 -0800 From: Nate Lawson <nate@root.org> To: John <john@starfire.mn.org> Cc: freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Greetings! I want to contribute Message-ID: <41E6ED89.3070803@root.org> In-Reply-To: <20050113090241.B3845@starfire.mn.org> References: <20050113090241.B3845@starfire.mn.org>
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John wrote: > Good day, folks. > > I am the owner of a Compaq Armada M700 which has some definite ACPI > issues. I didn't notice right away, because it came up properly, > reported CPU and battery status reasonably, apm output was > sensible, etc. Events such as inserting a PCMCIA card or docking > station events, and maybe even lid events caused the system to either > instantly lock up tighter than a drum or do a trap 19/panic and > then lock up. The system has the 686H firmware, which is the > latest, and with a date matching the latest from Compaq's firmware > upgrade package. > > I know that this is an older laptop, but at 650Mhz and a reasonable > amount of RAM, it is an affordable and capable work station, and > I would like to help with the efforts in support. At a minimum, > I hope to learn enough about ACPI to "blacklist" only the parts of > the ACPI subdrivers that are causing the problem, but maybe I'll > actually be able to fix something. I haven't had any code in the > release since about FreeBSD version 1.1, and it's about time I > changed that. :) > > I haven't even read the spec yet, so I obviously have a lot of > learning to do. I promise not to bug anyone for information until > I've spent some time with the driver spec and the driver code. > > Thanks, and I look forward to contributing something. A good start is to read the acpi handbook entry and man pages. -- Nate
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