From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Janosch Machowinski Subject: Re: Please help: ACPI not working on DELL Inspiron 1150 Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 17:15:13 +0200 Message-ID: <44B3C081.6060104@tzi.de> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: Received: from mailhost.informatik.uni-bremen.de ([134.102.201.18]:22516 "EHLO informatik.uni-bremen.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750990AbWGKPPA (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Jul 2006 11:15:00 -0400 In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Rusl=E1n_Ledesma_Garza?= Cc: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org Rusl=E1n Ledesma Garza wrote: >=20 > There is no mailloop. I thought the mail hadn't reached the mailing l= ist > 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 ol= d email. Think about why nobody answered... >=20 > 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 De= ll > laptops. From what I've researched, I've discovered this is not an > isolated malfunction. >=20 > What I ask is some feedback. What should I do first in order to get t= his > thing fixed? >=20 > 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 loadi= ng > 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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" i= n the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html