[acpi-jp 2716] Dell D800 ACPI Issues

[Nate Lawson]

On Sun, 5 Oct 2003, Mike Hunter wrote:
> I am trying to get acpi to work better on my Dell D800.  I see the
> following warning message when I boot:
>
>         -0166: *** Error: UtAllocate: Attempt to allocate zero bytes
>         -0166: *** Error: UtAllocate: Attempt to allocate zero bytes
>         -0166: *** Error: UtAllocate: Attempt to allocate zero bytes
>         -0166: *** Error: UtAllocate: Attempt to allocate zero bytes
>
> It repeats that quite a bit.

I've been following down this issue.  It is known.

> I have flashed my bios up to A3 (the latest as of a month ago).
>
> I have placed acpidump and acpidump -d here:
>
> http://www.lusars.net/~mhunter/acpi.out
> http://www.lusars.net/~mhunter/acpi.out.txt
>
> I will follow-up this post with some results of acpiconf...but I want to
> send this first because I seem to remember that it makes my computer crash
> :)
>
> My sources are from Sep. 29 (5.1-CURRENT)

It would help if you also send the output of acpidump -t.  This gives the
fixed tables and is short.

-Nate