ACPI support - Freebsd 10 on Sony Vaio VPCCA3C5E

[Daniele Mazzotti]

Hi Anthony,

The error log was attached to my previous email.

Cheers,
Daniele.
Il 15/lug/2014 22:09 "Daniele Mazzotti" <kappei84 at gmail.com> ha scritto:

> 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.
>> >>
>>
>>
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