From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 11 05:50:58 2003 Return-Path: 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 33A9D16A4CE; Thu, 11 Dec 2003 05:50:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from telecom.net.et (sparrow.telecom.net.et [213.55.64.38]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5FA0343D2C; Thu, 11 Dec 2003 05:50:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mtm@identd.net) Received: from [213.55.65.179] (HELO pool-151-200-10-97.res.east.verizon.net) by telecom.net.et (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 3.4.8) with ESMTP-TLS id 31833459; Thu, 11 Dec 2003 16:45:22 +0300 Received: from mobile.acsolutions.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) ESMTP id hBBDoOBM001176; Thu, 11 Dec 2003 16:50:29 +0300 (EAT) (envelope-from mtm@mobile.acsolutions.com) Received: (from mtm@localhost) by mobile.acsolutions.com (8.12.10/8.12.10/Submit) id hBBCLx1r000805; Thu, 11 Dec 2003 15:21:59 +0300 (EAT) (envelope-from mtm) Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2003 15:21:59 +0300 From: Mike Makonnen To: "David O'Brien" Message-ID: <20031211122159.GA781@mobile.acsolutions.com> References: <20031210123525.GA13196@mobile.acsolutions.com> <20031210174641.GA47715@dragon.nuxi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20031210174641.GA47715@dragon.nuxi.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD/5.2-CURRENT (i386) cc: njl@FreeBSD.org cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ACPI regressions X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2003 13:50:58 -0000 On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 09:46:41AM -0800, David O'Brien wrote: > On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 03:35:25PM +0300, Mike Makonnen wrote: > > > > I upgraded my laptop to 5.2-BETA from 5.1-RELEASE a few weeks ago and was > > extremely happy to find that acpi was working much better. However, after > > the recent upgrade of ACPI in 5.2-CURRENT, all the problems that had been > > fixed reappeared. My laptop is a Dell Inspiron 5100 with Dell BIOS A23. > > The symptoms are: > > o The acpi battery information is invalid > > o The acpi temperature information is invalid > > o The following message is repeated several times on the console when it boots: > > -0166: *** Error: UtAllocate: Attempt to allocate zero bytes > > Have you fixed your BIOS's ACPI? There is a nice page for Dell laptops > at http://sandcat.nl/~stijn/freebsd/dell.php Interestingly when I tried it with 5.1-RELEASE (acpi not working well) and 5.2-BETA (acpi working well) it didn't make any difference. When I tried it again after the acpi import, it fixed my problems: o temperature information is good o batter information is good o I no longer get the UtAllocate errors Cheers. -- Mike Makonnen | GPG-KEY: http://www.identd.net/~mtm/mtm.asc mtm@identd.net | Fingerprint: 00E8 61BC 0D75 7FFB E4D3 6BF1 B239 D010 3215 D418 mtm@FreeBSD.Org| FreeBSD - Unleash the Daemon !