ACPI hangs on boot with ACER Travelmate 3002WTCi

[Bao Tran <bqtran-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>]

First off, just wanted to say thanks for everything so far.

Secondly, I just got an Acer Travelmate 3002wtci, and the first thing
I did was rip out the hard drive and tried to put linux on it.  I've
had it for a couple of days now, and I've gotten most of it working,
but I noticed that if ACPI support is enabled on any of my kernels
(currently running mm-sources 2.6.13-rc5-mm1), the computer will hang
right after I press enter in grub, showing up no messages and giving
me a blank black screen.

I am thinking like most Acer laptops, it has a buggy DSDT and ECDT
problems, so I've considered fixing it, but I can't even run a cat
/proc/acpi since acpi has to be disabled in order to boot, so I am
stuck.

I would post technical specs, but I am currently at work. I will post
more when I get home,but for now, here is what i remember off the top
of my head:

ACPI "compliant" 1.0b
PhoenixBIOS
Winbond (Nat Semi) PC87591 sensor
Pentium M 740 (1.73 GHz)
ICH6 Controller (i2c-i801 + eeprom loaded)


Is there anything I can do to diagnose/fix the problem more?

Thanks,
bao


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