Re: Please help: ACPI not working on DELL Inspiron 1150

[Janosch Machowinski <scotch@tzi.de>]

Ruslán Ledesma Garza wrote:
> 
> There is no mailloop. I thought the mail hadn't reached the mailing list
> because no one had answered me anything.
This is a maillist, pleas do not expect, that you get an answer within
hours... I would say if you didn't get an answer within 2 days it's ok,
to ask again... But if you ask again, please do not just resend your old
email. Think about why nobody answered...
> 
> I thought I could get some little help but it seems as if I'm not in the
> right place or no one seems interested in making ACPI work on some Dell
> laptops. From what I've researched, I've discovered this is not an
> isolated malfunction.
> 
> What I ask is some feedback. What should I do first in order to get this
> thing fixed?
> 
> Besides I've been asking a few questions which I feel have not been
> answered very well.
> -Is the DSDT a firmware?
Sort of (for more information go to www.acpi.info)
> -If it is so where does it reside?
In the bios
> -I found a tutorial on how to "fix" the DSDT. They talked about loading
> the DSDT on startup through an image file. What does this mean?

The DSDT can be be replaced by the host OS a patch for this purpose can
be found at :
http://gaugusch.at/kernel.shtml.
In general it is not the right way to replace the DSDT. Linux should
work on any box without replacing the DSDT...

Greetings
   Janosch
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