Alienware acpi problem

[Dana H. Myers]

Steve Kargl wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 24, 2006 at 06:23:24PM -0400, John Baldwin wrote:
>> On Monday 24 July 2006 17:50, Steve Kargl wrote:
>>> ACPI gurus,
>>>
>>> My colleague has installed FreeBSD 6.1-table onto his
>>> Alienware MJ-12 laptop.  During the boot process, we
>>> see
>>>
>>> acpi0: [MPSAFE]
>>>     ACPI-0438: *** Error: Looking up [\\_SB_.PCI0.PIB_.LNKH] in namespace, 
>> AE_NOT_FOUND
>>> SearchNode 0xffffff000091c240 StartNode 0xffffff000091c240 ReturnNode 0
>>>     ACPI-0438: *** Error: Looking up [\\_SB_.PCI0.LNKH] in namespace, 
>> AE_NOT_FOUND
>>> SearchNode 0xffffff00009084c0 StartNode 0xffffff00009084c0 ReturnNode 0
>>>     ACPI-0438: *** Error: Looking up [\\_SB_.PCI0.LNKH] in namespace, 
>> AE_NOT_FOUND
>>> SearchNode 0xffffff00008eb200 StartNode 0xffffff00008eb200 ReturnNode 0
>>>     ACPI-0438: *** Error: Looking up [\\_SB_.PCI0.LNKH] in namespace, 
>> AE_NOT_FOUND
>>> SearchNode 0xffffff0000909d40 StartNode 0xffffff0000909d40 ReturnNode 0
>> Well, that's probably why cardbus is broken.  Can you get the output of 
>> acpidump?  Specifically I'd be interested in the parts that mention LNKH (as 
>> well as where it actually lives in the device tree).
>>
> 
> John, 
> 
> The pattern LNKH appears in multiple places throughout the asl file.
> Instead of sending seemly random chucks to the list, the entire asl
> can be found at (uncompressed and gzipped)
> 
> http://troutmask.apl.washington.edu/~kargl/alienware.asl

I guess it's not a huge surprise, but I can't find a link device
named LINKH.  Might this be a broken DSDT?  Have you checked for an
updated BIOS and/or had a second-look at your BIOS setup?

Dana