trouble overriding DSDT

[Nate Lawson]

Sascha Klauder wrote:
> Hi Nate,
> 
> On Thu, Sep 16, 2004 at 03:30:00PM -0700, Nate Lawson wrote:
> 
>>Sascha Klauder wrote:
>>
>>>ACPI: DSDT was overridden.
>>>  ACPI-0374: *** Info: Table [DSDT] replaced by host OS
>>>  ACPI-0380: *** Error: Looking up [_PCT] in namespace, AE_ALREADY_EXISTS
>>>  ACPI-1303: *** Error: [NULL NAME], AE_ALREADY_EXISTS
>>>
>>>followed by a kernel trap.  Could this be a problem with iasl or
>>>did I missed something else? 
>>
>>It looks like you duplicated the _PCT and other methods somehow.  Is it 
>>possible you appended multiple copies of your ASL to it?  Check with:
> 
> 
> I don't think so.
> 
> 
>>grep _PCT nx9005-KA.M-1.59-original.asl
> 
> 
> Name (_PCT, Package (0x02)
> 
> 
>>grep _PCT nx9005-KA.M-1.59-custom.asl
> 
> 
> Name (_PCT, Package (0x02)
> 
> Interesting enough, I get the same error message when compiling
> the *original* ASL and loading the resulting DSDT.aml file!

Just for the record, this has been fixed in both -current and 5.3.  The 
output of acpidump(8) includes all the SSDTs still but overrides them on 
boot so things should work fine.

-Nate