From: krunk <krunkalot-ktR7oAotx3zQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
To: acpi-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org
Subject: Re: Re: ACPI and the Dell 5150
Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2004 15:15:05 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1082492104.4767.3.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <005401c4264c$767efbe0$6601a8c0-ch6Hu9/Y/Nk@public.gmane.org>
I really wish they would have just stuck with APM. It "just worked". If
it's not broke, why fix it?
On Mon, 2004-04-19 at 15:25, Michael McCaskill wrote:
> 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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2004-04-19 20:25 ACPI and the Dell 5150 Michael McCaskill
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2004-04-20 20:15 ` krunk [this message]
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