How can I fix these problems of the asl of my computer?

[Moore, Robert]

I had a sneaking suspicion that MS might be involved in this.

I can add these to the compiler's reserved list to eliminate future
warnings.

BTW, I meant that most everyone goes nearly blind attempting to read the
ACPI spec.



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jung-uk Kim [mailto:jkim at FreeBSD.org]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2006 2:58 PM
> To: freebsd-acpi at FreeBSD.org
> Cc: Moore, Robert; huangxiangkui at gmail.com
> Subject: Re: How can I fix these problems of the asl of my computer?
> 
> On Wednesday 15 February 2006 05:39 pm, Moore, Robert wrote:
> > ze2205au.asl  4138:             Name (_WDG, Buffer (0x50)
> > Warning  2033 -    Unknown reserved name ^  (_WDG)
> >
> > ze2205au.asl  4699:             Method (_WED, 1, NotSerialized)
> > Warning  2033 -      Unknown reserved name ^  (_WED)
> 
> This is a very common problem with all recent HP/Compaq laptops:
> http://gentoo-wiki.com/Talk:HOWTO_Fix_Common_ACPI_Problems
> 
> > 2) Ignore the warnings. Your BIOS writers did not read the ACPI
> > spec or became blind sometime in the middle of it, highly probable.
> > :-)
> 
> No, they are not blind.  They just work for the dark side. ;-)
> 
> Both _WDG and _WED are Microsoft extensions:
> http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/system/pnppwr/wmi/wmi-acpi.mspx
> 
> Jung-uk Kim