Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2003 08:44:20 -0600 From: "Cagle, John (ISS-Houston)" <john.cagle@hp.com> To: "Joel M. Baldwin" <qumqats@outel.org>, <freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: bad ACPL asl's on motherboards Message-ID: <C50AB9511EE59B49B2A503CB7AE1ABD10476BD35@cceexc19.americas.cpqcorp.net>
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You might ask that question on the ACPI development list. I think there are several people who have contributed patched ASL's for machines that are broken. Here's a link: Acpi-devel mailing list Acpi-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/acpi-devel > -----Original Message----- > From: Joel M. Baldwin [mailto:qumqats@outel.org]=20 > Sent: Thursday, January 16, 2003 8:08 AM > To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: bad ACPL asl's on motherboards >=20 >=20 >=20 > I gather that there are quite a few Motherboards with bad=20 > ACPI asl's on them. I know that my Abit BP6 sure has=20 > problems. As a result I can't run ACPI. >=20 > What are those of us with these motherboards supposed to to? >=20 > I realize that we can use acpidump to get the asl, correct=20 > it, and then recompile it using iasl from the acpicatools=20 > port, to generate the aml that can be used during boot. >=20 > acpi_dsdt_load=3D"YES" # DSDT Overriding > acpi_dsdt_name=3D"/boot/abitBP6.aml" > # Override DSDT in BIOS by this file >=20 > But this doesn't help me much since I don't know what=20 > corrections to make to the original asl file. Nor does it=20 > help the other people out there using BP6's. >=20 > Is someone going to create a asl erratica web page? > How about something to help us correct our asl files like a FAQ? >=20 >=20 >=20 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message >=20 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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