Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 22:30:25 -0800 (PST) From: Nate Lawson <nate@root.org> To: Jeremy Bingham <jeremy@satanosphere.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problem w/ ACPI in -CURRENT: Update Message-ID: <20031030222851.K90966@root.org> In-Reply-To: <20031031051017.GA2792@lagash.satanosphere.com> References: <20030930144703.W81965@root.org> <20030930220658.GA51513@lagash.satanosphere.com> <20031001162256.GB55082@lagash.satanosphere.com> <20031001170457.GA55275@lagash.satanosphere.com> <20031031051017.GA2792@lagash.satanosphere.com>
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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
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