Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 14:58:15 +0100 From: Jeremie Le Hen <jeremie@le-hen.org> To: Marco Calviani <marco.calviani@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Freebsd 6.0 on Acer Travelmate 8000 series Message-ID: <20051128135814.GG1006@obiwan.tataz.chchile.org> In-Reply-To: <da5cd1900511260441q42798f86m@mail.gmail.com> References: <da5cd1900511221150x5da79206o@mail.gmail.com> <20051125234951.GD1006@obiwan.tataz.chchile.org> <da5cd1900511260441q42798f86m@mail.gmail.com>
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Hi, Marco,
> ACPI should work well though it may require a little DSDT modification
> > due to some bugs in the BIOS (AFAIU).
>
> sorry but can you specify why should i need to modify these settings, and
> what kind of bugs is there in the BIOS (if you know this)?
> Do you know if this is a freeBSD-related problem? With Linux i didn't have
> any sort of problem using ACPI (the only modification i've done to normal
> use and install is to have used a nolapic option at boot time).
The problem I have been faced with can be seen here :
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2005-May/050282.html
The ASL dump of the DSDT is obtained with acpidump(8).
Once you have the patched DSDT, you may want to load it automatically
at boot time. Put it in /boot/DSDT.aml and then add this to
loader.conf(5) :
% acpi_dsdt_load="YES"
% acpi_dsdt_name="/boot/DSDT.aml"
I hope this will help.
I don't know if this problem is FreeBSD-specific. I have an Acer laptop
too but not the same model as yours, so you may simply not encounter
this very problem actually.
Regards,
--
Jeremie Le Hen
< jeremie at le-hen dot org >< ttz at chchile dot org >
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