From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261974AbUBRDck (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Feb 2004 22:32:40 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262126AbUBRDck (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Feb 2004 22:32:40 -0500 Received: from hb6.lcom.net ([216.51.236.182]:11649 "EHLO petrus.dynamic.digitasaru.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261974AbUBRDci (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Feb 2004 22:32:38 -0500 Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 21:32:23 -0600 From: Joseph Pingenot To: Pavel Machek Cc: Matt Domsch , "Brown, Len" , bluefoxicy@linux.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: ACPI -- Workaround for broken DSDT Message-ID: <20040218033220.GA6756@digitasaru.net> Reply-To: trelane@digitasaru.net Mail-Followup-To: Pavel Machek , Matt Domsch , "Brown, Len" , bluefoxicy@linux.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20040202083836.A20843@lists.us.dell.com> <20040217114755.GA392@elf.ucw.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040217114755.GA392@elf.ucw.cz> X-School: University of Iowa X-vi-or-emacs: vi *and* emacs! X-MSMail-Priority: High X-Priority: 1 (Highest) X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: X-MimeOLE: Not Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org >>From Pavel Machek on Tuesday, 17 February, 2004: >Hi! >> > For non-vendor supplied solutions, you might also follow the DSDT link >> > here: http://acpi.sourceforge.net/ >> Len, this is a really good idea making this available. May I suggest >> you also have people provide patches between the original and their >> modified versions, so it's easy for everyone to see what was >> changed? >Patches are important because some DSDTs change with memory sizes, >too, so its safer to patch than to replace. I'm getting ready to contact Dell (after I work through my work and homework backlog. Ugh). Firt off, how do I determine what all is broken in the DSDT/BIOS? I know that the kernel refuses to use the APIC due to a 'broken BIOS' (Feb 16 14:38:31 petrus Dell Inspiron with broken BIOS detected. Refusing to enable the local APIC.) (Anyone know what I need to ask Dell to do to fix this?) I also know that the fan isn't reported in ACPI, and that I've not gotten it to suspend to RAM successfully (I've not gotten it to suspend to disk successfully either, but I think that's due to software and/or my issues, not the BIOS/DSDT). Also, any pointers on *how* to ask? The above should cover the what; who's successfully gotten a vendor (esp. Dell) to issue a fixed BIOS and/or DSDT, and how did you go about it? Thanks! -Joseph -- Joseph===============================================trelane@digitasaru.net Graduate Student in Physics, Freelance Free Software Developer