Dell 4150 & ACPI-0293: *** Warning: Buffer created with zero length in AML

[Stijn Hoop]

On Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 10:58:41PM +0200, Eric Masson wrote:
> >>>>> "Harald" == Harald Hanche-Olsen <hanche at math.ntnu.no> writes:
> 
>  Harald> This was discussed on freebsd-current in a thread starting
>  Harald> 2003-06-10, "ACPI Regression in -CURRENT?". There was some
>  Harald> confusion about which file needed to be patched. I put my
>  Harald> version of the patch here:
> 
>  Harald>   http://www.math.ntnu.no/~hanche/tmp/insp4150.patch
> 
> Thanks to everyone who responded.
> 
> Ok, patch applied, everything seems to work fine. Acpi can't initialize
> cmbat1, but it seems logical to me as I only have one battery :)
> 
> Has anyone succeded in seting up suspend to disk on this machine (I've
> tried to create a std partition with dell tools but I could only make
> suspend but never resume).

Yes I have. Resume has the same problem as ACPI sleep state S3 though, the
display stays off. Other people have reported the display coming back up
after about 30-60 seconds but I've never waited that long :)

> Setup has changed now as this machine triple boots dos, w2k and FreeBSD.
> So I have a 1 GB dos partition where a suspend file could be stored.

MKS2D.EXE worked for me.

HTH,

--Stijn

-- 
"Diane, 2:15 in the afternoon, November 14. Entering town of Twin Peaks.
 Five miles south of the Canadian border, twelve miles west of the state
 line. Never seen so many trees in my life. As W.C. Fields would say, I'd
 rather be here than Philadelphia."
		-- Special Agent Dale Cooper, "Twin Peaks"
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 187 bytes
Desc: not available
Url : http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-mobile/attachments/20030623/c19b8cfd/attachment.bin