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Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2003 17:38:37 +0200
From: Mark Santcroos <marks@ripe.net>
To: Maikel Verheijen <maikel@ladot.com>
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Subject: Re: ACPI errors on boot
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On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 09:11:23AM +0200, Maikel Verheijen wrote:
> I have recently installed FreeBSD 5.1 on my Dell C800 laptop, and I get
> quite a lot (well: 48 :) of these errors on boot:
> 
>     ACPI-0293: *** Warning: Buffer created with zero length in AML
>         -0166: *** Error: UtAllocate: Attempt to allocate zero bytes
> 
> Are those harmfull? Is there something I can do with it? Otherwise my laptop
> is working perfectly... :)
             ^^^^^^^^^
I have serious doubts on that. I'm pretty sure your battery status won't
be showed correctly.

Fix is in the archives of this and/or acpi-jp@ list.

Mark

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