Acpi problems with HP 6501b

[Matthieu Michaud]

Dominic Fandrey a écrit :
> Apart from there not being a specific acpi module for HP notebooks my 
> new HP Compaq 6510b GR695EA#ABD has some other problems. First of all 
> there seems to be a fault in the ACPI-BIOS, for it defines a CRT of 
> 256°C for tz0:
> 
> Feb  9 21:46:37 mobileKamikaze kernel: acpi_tz0: _CRT value is absurd, 
> ignored (256.0C)
> 
> This message is quite uselessly posted every couple of seconds. I fear 
> this asks for one more addition to the quirks, for I doubt the vendor 
> will come up with a BIOS update that fixes this behaviour.
> 
> The next problem is that acpiconf -s # doesn't work:
> 
> # acpiconf -s 3                                      0 /root
> acpiconf: request sleep type (3) failed: Operation not supported
> # acpiconf -s 4                                     74 /root
> acpiconf: request sleep type (4) failed: Operation not supported
> # acpiconf -s 5                                     74 /root
> acpiconf: request sleep type (4) failed: Operation not supported
> #                                                   74 /root
> 
> The number on the right displays the return value of the previous command.
> 
> Here are some select sysctl values:
> hw.acpi.supported_sleep_state: S3 S4 S5
> hw.acpi.power_button_state: S5
> hw.acpi.sleep_button_state: S3
> hw.acpi.lid_switch_state: NONE
> hw.acpi.standby_state: S1
> hw.acpi.suspend_state: S3
> hw.acpi.sleep_delay: 1
> hw.acpi.s4bios: 1
> 
> I was especially happy about the last value. To bad I cannot put it to 
> the test.

I have the same hardware running 7-stable and the same issue. Could it 
be fixed ? Does one need vendor information to do so ?