kern/89879: [acpi] ACPI-0438: *** Error: Looking up [Z00C] in namespace, AE_NOT_FOUND

[Ariff Abdullah]

The following reply was made to PR kern/89879; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Ariff Abdullah <ariff at FreeBSD.org>
To: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org, dana.myers at gmail.com, dwerner1974 at yahoo.com
Cc:  
Subject: Re: kern/89879: [acpi] ACPI-0438: *** Error: Looking up [Z00C] in
 namespace, AE_NOT_FOUND
Date: Sun, 4 Dec 2005 02:43:06 +0800

 On Sat, 3 Dec 2005 18:00:21 GMT
 "Dana H. Myers" <dana.myers at gmail.com> wrote:
 > The following reply was made to PR kern/89879; it has been noted by
 > GNATS.
 > 
 > From: "Dana H. Myers" <dana.myers at gmail.com>
 > To: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org,  dwerner1974 at yahoo.com
 > Cc:  
 > Subject: Re: kern/89879: [acpi] ACPI-0438: *** Error: Looking up
 > [Z00C] in
 >  namespace, AE_NOT_FOUND
 > Date: Sat, 03 Dec 2005 09:55:19 -0800
 > 
 >  I see the same problem on the Acer Ferrari 4005, where Z00C isn't
 >  defined and thus the battery status method fails.
 >  
 This is actually easy to fix, provided that you know how to dump, edit
 and recompile your acpi dsdt using acpidump(8) and iasl(8). Take a
 look at http://people.freebsd.org/~ariff/acer_ferrari/ for an example
 on how to tweak and recover the functionality of battery status
 method.
 
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 Ariff Abdullah
 FreeBSD