From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 28 13:58:35 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org 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 CE3AD16A41F for ; Mon, 28 Nov 2005 13:58:35 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from tataz@tataz.chchile.org) Received: from smtp3-g19.free.fr (smtp3-g19.free.fr [212.27.42.29]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C72643D5D for ; Mon, 28 Nov 2005 13:58:31 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from tataz@tataz.chchile.org) Received: from tatooine.tataz.chchile.org (vol75-8-82-233-239-98.fbx.proxad.net [82.233.239.98]) by smtp3-g19.free.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id F364F36EB9; Mon, 28 Nov 2005 14:58:30 +0100 (CET) Received: by tatooine.tataz.chchile.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 1E076405A; Mon, 28 Nov 2005 14:58:15 +0100 (CET) Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 14:58:15 +0100 From: Jeremie Le Hen To: Marco Calviani Message-ID: <20051128135814.GG1006@obiwan.tataz.chchile.org> References: <20051125234951.GD1006@obiwan.tataz.chchile.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Freebsd 6.0 on Acer Travelmate 8000 series X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 13:58:35 -0000 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 >