Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2003 00:24:34 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: Stijn Hoop <stijn@win.tue.nl> Cc: Thorsten Greiner <thorsten.greiner@web.de> Subject: Re: ACPI Regression in -CURRENT? Message-ID: <20030611052434.GE48233@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <20030610135856.GQ12096@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> References: <200306101342.h5ADgHQ26446@mailgate5.cinetic.de> <20030610135856.GQ12096@pcwin002.win.tue.nl>
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In the last episode (Jun 10), Stijn Hoop said: > On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 03:42:18PM +0200, Thorsten Greiner wrote: > > some time ago several people (including me) reported ACPI related problems > > on various Dell laptops resulting in error messages of the form > > > > ACPI-0293: *** Warning: Buffer created with zero length in AML > > This is due to the Dell laptops having an invalid ACPI table in the BIOS. > The only way to avoid these messages is to tell FreeBSD ACPI to override > the vendor supplied table with a correct one. > > Mark Santcroos developed a patch which worked on his C640 and my Inspiron > 4150, which you can find attached. Here are the steps to use it: This patch fixes a -current hang on bootup and misdetection of the serial ports on my Dell CP. thanks! -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com
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