From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Simon Waters Subject: Getting started: Acer Travelmate 200DX and Debian Sid Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2006 22:25:37 +0000 Message-ID: <43E286E1.7010807@technocool.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from h3.zynet2.co.uk ([212.24.80.3]:23768 "EHLO mail.technocool.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932354AbWBBWZi (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Feb 2006 17:25:38 -0500 Received: from [10.254.239.1] (84-45-158-52.no-dns-yet.enta.net [84.45.158.52]) by mail.technocool.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1825C189B0 for ; Thu, 2 Feb 2006 22:25:38 +0000 (UTC) Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org My trusty, if rather old laptop, developed a problem with recent Debian Sid stock kernels, which doesn't occur if I pass the newer kernels the option "acpi = off". http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5938 Looking at the dsdt, it appears to have a selection of the normal errors, and I've made a stab at fixing them, and now iasl doesn't report any errors, and even the remaining warnings don't look too bad to my untutored eye. Is there a lazy way for someone who prefers Debian stock kernels to update the ACPI table without building a new kernel? Otherwise I'll brave the initrd method described in the Gentoo forums. Anyone guess if fixing the "obvious" errors in the DSDT is likely to help with this issue? Is there a guide to testing a new DSDT, or comparitive testing, as at this point my interest is proving it is a hardware specific thing (i.e. fixing the DSDT fixes the problems), but presumably if it works others will want to know the fixes are properly tested. Is it likely that future kernels will include a customer DSDT feature by default, as it seems a lot of laptops need this sort of tender loving care?