ACPI and the Dell 5150

ACPI and the Dell 5150

[Krunk]

I've been fighting to get this working for quite some time. I've
followed all the howto's on decompiling and recompiling the DSDT and
applied some of the fixes to the errors that came up, but LID and POW
events are still not detected and sleep and suspend don't work properly
either. If someone with greater knowledge of ACPI would be willing to
work with me I'd be very much appreciative (as would many other 5150
Linux users). If your willing just give me a list of what you would need
to effectively troubleshoot and I'll get right on it.




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Re: ACPI and the Dell 5150

[Michael McCaskill]

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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.

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