Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:37:20 +0900 From: Takanori Watanabe <takawata@shidahara1.planet.sci.kobe-u.ac.jp> To: b@etek.chalmers.se Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ACPI messages. Message-ID: <200201150337.MAA19675@shidahara1.planet.sci.kobe-u.ac.jp> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 14 Jan 2002 17:47:20 %2B0100." <Pine.OSF.4.21.0201141731060.31372-100000@downy.etek.chalmers.se>
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In message <Pine.OSF.4.21.0201141731060.31372-100000@downy.etek.chalmers.se>, M
agnus B{ckstr|m wrote:
>I put CURRENT on a new Dell Inspiron 4100 laptop this weekend. Works fine,
>but I keep getting these messages:
>
> ACPI-0294: *** Error: Method execution failed, AE_AML_OPERAND_TYPE
>
>The messages are logged once every few seconds, and every time I e g remove
>or insert a battery.
>
>I'm not sure what the message means, but then I haven't delved into it
>beyond searching the mailing list archives (nothing much turned up).
>
>Is it
> A) something to worry about?
> B) something related to some part of the laptop hardware being unknown,
> and thus
> C) something that I ought to endeavour to fix, having the hardware?
This may be AML(bytecode) bug made by vendor, which is not appeared
in Microsoft implementation. Possible fix you can do now is AML overriding.
Takanori Watanabe
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