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Subject: Re: Problem w/ ACPI in -CURRENT: Update
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On Thu, 30 Oct 2003, Jeremy Bingham wrote:
> On 29/10/03 18:18 -0800, Nate Lawson wrote:
> > I looked at a few other ASL copies I have and you have an old version.
> > Have you done a BIOS update recently?
> >
> > Yours:  OEMID=DELL, OEM Table ID=CPi R, OEM Revision=0x27d0040b,
> > Others: OEMID=DELL, OEM Table ID=CPi R, OEM Revision=0x27d20b07,
> > Others: OEMID=DELL, OEM Table ID=CPi R, OEM Revision=0x27d3050f,
> >
> > Update your BIOS and then do acpidump -t to verify your revision is the
> > latest.
> >
> > -Nate
>
> Success! I updated my BIOS from A05 to A14, and -CURRENT works
> beautifully. I only wish that I had read this email a few hours earlier,
> before I got frustrated and decided to give Debian a shot on this
> laptop.

Linux would probably have had the same problem with your AML since we use
the same interpreter.

> Happily running FreeBSD again,

Glad to hear it.  Anyone else having ACPI trouble should please update to
their latest BIOS revision before reporting a problem.

Thanks,
Nate