ACPI support - Freebsd 10 on Sony Vaio VPCCA3C5E

[Daniele Mazzotti]

Hi Anthony,

I tried to apply the patch but it seems like 6 out of 7 entries are
dismissed. Is it enough to just type

# cd /usr/src && patch < path/to/atrtc.c.patch

as root? Shouldn't I recompile anything?

Cheers,
Daniele.


2014-07-15 21:39 GMT+02:00 Anthony Jenkins <Anthony.B.Jenkins at att.net>:

> On 07/15/2014 13:49, Daniele Mazzotti wrote:
> > Hello Anthony,
> > I just noticed that I forgot to answer the part where you proposed me to
> > "patch" my ACPI. Unfortunately I am running and AMD 64 architecture and I
> > do not think this is fitting with what you already patched.
> x86-based architectures use my patch, including amd64.  It patches the
> sys/x86/isa/atrtc.c driver.  I'll attach it... might fix some stuff.  I've
> been running it on my laptop for several weeks and posted it to this
> newsgroup some time ago, so it should be safe at least.
>
>     # cd /usr/src && patch < path/to/atrtc.c.patch
>
> > By the way I am not sure that what I wrote is that relevant to you, but I
> > just wanted to give you the feeling that I am not just passively
> requiring
> > help.
>
> Not at all... I'm scared I can't really help you with your problem.  At
> least it helps me learn ACPI.
>
> Anthony
>
> P.S. I alternate between top-posting and bottom-posting, depending on the
> audience...I know I've switched at least twice in this thread.
>
>
> > Cheers,
> > Daniele.
> >
> >
> > 2014-07-14 20:21 GMT+02:00 Daniele Mazzotti <kappei84 at gmail.com>:
> >
> >> Hi Anthony,
> >>
> >> no problem for the "delay". I did not expect you to answer 5 seconds or
> 5
> >> minutes after my email as I think we all have lives and jobs that keep
> us
> >> busy quite a lot. So, no problem at all!
> >>
> >> Regarding the issue we are discussing about, I think I already posted
> the
> >> output of "acpidump -dt" here http://pastebin.com/F0a2mZP4 and I also
> >> tried to understand a bit of the contents but I had no luck.
> Unfortunately
> >> I am not so much into this ACPI thing, but I am very interested to know
> how
> >> it works and fix (my.... maybe also someone's else) bug.
> >>
> >> I followed your recommendation and enabled the debug in the loader.conf.
> >> You can find my output here: http://pastebin.com/JXMjBhyx.
> >> Thanks again for the precious help.
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >> Daniele.
> >>
>
>