From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Michael McCaskill" Subject: Re: ACPI and the Dell 5150 Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2004 16:25:27 -0400 Sender: acpi-devel-admin-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org Message-ID: <005401c4264c$767efbe0$6601a8c0@MICHAEL> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_004F_01C4262A.ECC5E290" Return-path: Errors-To: acpi-devel-admin-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: To: acpi-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_004F_01C4262A.ECC5E290 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hey krunk. This is mmcc999 from the Dell Support forums. I am also on = Gentoo forums under theonlymcc. I have done all the things you have = done. It seems that "fixing" errors will not suffice in this case. It = seems that the DSDT is just poorly written logically, and the fact that = Dell uses Microsoft's ASL/ASM compiler versus Intel's, which more = strictly adhears to the ACPI standard. I think part of the "problem" = (not really a problem) is that 2.6 kernel expects a strict ACPI/DSDT as = well. But I am with you, anyone who can help with this, please do. All = of us 5150 Linux 2.6 users would appreciate it. ------=_NextPart_000_004F_01C4262A.ECC5E290 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Hey krunk. This is mmcc999 from the = Dell Support=20 forums. I am also on Gentoo forums under theonlymcc. I have done all the = things=20 you have done. It seems that "fixing" errors will not suffice in this = case. It=20 seems that the DSDT is just poorly written logically, and the fact that = Dell=20 uses Microsoft's ASL/ASM compiler versus Intel's, which more strictly = adhears to=20 the ACPI standard. I think part of the "problem" (not really a problem) = is that=20 2.6 kernel expects a strict ACPI/DSDT as well. But I am with you, anyone = who can=20 help with this, please do. All of us 5150 Linux 2.6 users would = appreciate=20 it.
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