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Subject: Re: [acpi-jp 2149] Re: HEADSUP: acpi 0228 in the tree
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On Wed, 30 Apr 2003, Thorsten Greiner wrote:
> I have some issues with the new acpi. First, there a several messages 
>    complaining about zero length buffers in the syslog:
> 
>      ACPI-0293: *** Warning: Buffer created with zero length in AML
>          -0166: *** Error: UtAllocate: Attempt to allocate zero bytes
> 
> Second, powering down (using "halt -p") does not work anymore.

echo hw.acpi.verbose=1 >> /boot/device.hints
Then boot -v and let me know the dmesg.
Also, do acpidump -o dell.dsdt > dell.aml and send me a url to the files.

-Nate