From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: krunk Subject: Re: Re: ACPI and the Dell 5150 Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2004 15:15:05 -0500 Sender: acpi-devel-admin-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org Message-ID: <1082492104.4767.3.camel@localhost> References: <005401c4264c$767efbe0$6601a8c0@MICHAEL> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <005401c4264c$767efbe0$6601a8c0-ch6Hu9/Y/Nk@public.gmane.org> 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 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. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click