From: glen martin <lists@locutory.org>
To: "Yu, Luming" <luming.yu@intel.com>
Cc: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: FIXED: no /proc/acpi, trying to dump dsdt to a file
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2006 23:47:37 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <442B8D19.3040500@locutory.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <554C5F4C5BA7384EB2B412FD46A3BAD10F0D2A@pdsmsx411.ccr.corp.intel.com>
Well, maybe. Under linux with the broken table, the system mostly sorta
worked. One thing that didn't was the on-mobo ethernet. the
reverse-engineered forcedeth would load, but not work. On Windows,
NVidia's proprietary driver may have a different way to figure out
whatever the DSDT would provide, and so not need the DSDT data.
glen
Yu, Luming wrote:
>Then, Linux could need to forgive it too. :-)
>--Luming
>
>
>
>
>>Yes, no problems detected under WinXP Pro. Somehow Windows is
>>forgiving
>>of these issues.
>>
>>glen
>>
>>
>>Yu, Luming wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>>>Or at least, I'm past my pain, thanks to a lot of help from
>>>>Robert and Len.
>>>>
>>>>To recap:
>>>>
>>>>The DSDT in my BIOS was very broken, such that ACPI didn't load up
>>>>properly. This meant I was having trouble reading the data
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>from my BIOS
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>using /proc/acpi/dsdt.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>Does windows works with such broken BIOS ?
>>>
>>>
>>>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-03-30 7:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-03-30 7:15 FIXED: no /proc/acpi, trying to dump dsdt to a file Yu, Luming
2006-03-30 7:47 ` glen martin [this message]
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2006-03-30 3:29 Yu, Luming
2006-03-30 7:11 ` glen martin
2006-03-30 2:47 glen martin
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