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Subject: Re: ACPI Warning: Converted Buffer to expected String
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Jung-uk Kim wrote:

[snip]

> by new ACPICA.  However, if you see "ACPI Error", that's something to 
> worry about, e.g., cannot convert predefined types.
> 

So I should be worried about this line from my Toshiba R600 laptop's dmesg?

ACPI Error: Package List length (0xC) larger than NumElements count 
(0x4), truncated

Cheers,
Lawrence