From owner-freebsd-acpi@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 26 19:23:15 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 98D3116A584; Wed, 26 Jul 2006 19:23:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu) Received: from troutmask.apl.washington.edu (troutmask.apl.washington.edu [128.208.78.105]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DBA1743D62; Wed, 26 Jul 2006 19:23:07 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu) Received: from troutmask.apl.washington.edu (localhost.apl.washington.edu [127.0.0.1]) by troutmask.apl.washington.edu (8.13.7/8.13.7) with ESMTP id k6QJL6kO004964; Wed, 26 Jul 2006 12:21:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu) Received: (from sgk@localhost) by troutmask.apl.washington.edu (8.13.7/8.13.7/Submit) id k6QJL6sF004963; Wed, 26 Jul 2006 12:21:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sgk) Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2006 12:21:06 -0700 From: Steve Kargl To: John Baldwin Message-ID: <20060726192106.GA4693@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> References: <20060724215014.GA89464@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <200607241823.24477.jhb@freebsd.org> <20060725201556.GA97140@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <200607261505.38960.jhb@freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200607261505.38960.jhb@freebsd.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Cc: freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Alienware acpi problem X-BeenThere: freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: ACPI and power management development List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2006 19:23:15 -0000 On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 03:05:38PM -0400, John Baldwin wrote: > > You have some of the most incompetent BIOS writers I've ever seen working on > your machine I'm afraid. It's a Phoenix BIOS. > First off, there is no LNKH device on your system. > You do have various pci_link devices. Four for APIC: ALKA, ALKB, ALKC, and > ALKD, and four for non-APIC: LNKA, LNKB, LNKC, LNKD. Not only that, but they > all live in \_SB_.PCI0.PCIB. Some places refer to LNKH via > \_SB_.PCI0.PCIB.LNKH (as do all places for LNKA - LNKD it seems) but others > refer to it as \_SB_.PCI0.LNKH. Anyways, I think you might be fine if you > always use 'device apic', as the PCI interrupt routing tables for the APIC > case don't seem to reference LNKH. I think it will only go down in flames > this way if you disable APIC (via hint or not including 'device apic' in your > kernel config). Thanks for the help. The asl file might as well be greek or chinese or any other language that I don't speak. :( I'll need to follow up tomorrow because the laptop is currently in another location. I don't recall removing "device apic", so perhaps I somehow munged the hints files. -- Steve