Dell Inspiron 8600

[Igor Partola]

Good time of day, everyone.

I have had this laptop for a while now and the only thing that is 
keeping me from switching to FreeBSD as my normal desktop environment is 
the ACPI.

As usual S1 is supported while S3 is not. I've tried applying the latest 
patch but I saw no improvement.

I tried running 5.1 on this machine a while ago and there more features 
seemed to be supported. Hitting fn + F3 brought me to BIOS and closing 
the lid turned off the screen (I believe that was after I issued 
acpiconf -d as root). This functionality in 5.3 seems to be missing and 
I see now way to turn off the screen (xset does not work as it does not 
turn off backlight. I don't like this way anyways since I like console a 
lot).

When I issue acpiconf -s 3 I see that the laptop is preparing to go in 
suspend and the power indicator light actually starts dimming but after 
a second the fan starts going like a jet and the system reboots. I tried 
stripping the system of off all the unnecessary stuff (or so I think) 
but got the same effect.

DSDT seems to be fine (5 Warnings, 4 of them about _S0C, one about 
_WAK). I overrode it with a working one but nothing changed.

I would appreciate if someone gave me a piece of either hope or advice 
on how to work with this.

Respect

Igor

I am kind of new to the whole patching thing so some of the patches for 
some reason don't apply on my sys tree (generate .rej). Is there a 
manual on how to patch things properly? Are all patches created equal?