Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 09:02:41 -0600 From: John <john@starfire.mn.org> To: freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org Subject: Greetings! I want to contribute Message-ID: <20050113090241.B3845@starfire.mn.org>
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Good day, folks. I am the owner of a Compaq Armada M700 which has some definite ACPI issues. I didn't notice right away, because it came up properly, reported CPU and battery status reasonably, apm output was sensible, etc. Events such as inserting a PCMCIA card or docking station events, and maybe even lid events caused the system to either instantly lock up tighter than a drum or do a trap 19/panic and then lock up. The system has the 686H firmware, which is the latest, and with a date matching the latest from Compaq's firmware upgrade package. I know that this is an older laptop, but at 650Mhz and a reasonable amount of RAM, it is an affordable and capable work station, and I would like to help with the efforts in support. At a minimum, I hope to learn enough about ACPI to "blacklist" only the parts of the ACPI subdrivers that are causing the problem, but maybe I'll actually be able to fix something. I haven't had any code in the release since about FreeBSD version 1.1, and it's about time I changed that. :) I haven't even read the spec yet, so I obviously have a lot of learning to do. I promise not to bug anyone for information until I've spent some time with the driver spec and the driver code. Thanks, and I look forward to contributing something. -- John Lind john@starfire.MN.ORG
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