ACPI regressions

[David O'Brien]

On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 03:35:25PM +0300, Mike Makonnen wrote:
> 
> I upgraded my laptop to 5.2-BETA from 5.1-RELEASE a few weeks ago and was
> extremely happy to find that acpi was working much better. However, after
> the recent upgrade of ACPI in 5.2-CURRENT, all the problems that had been
> fixed reappeared. My laptop is a Dell Inspiron 5100 with Dell BIOS A23.
> The symptoms are:
> o The acpi battery information is invalid
> o The acpi temperature information is invalid
> o The following message is repeated several times on the console when it boots:
>      -0166: *** Error: UtAllocate: Attempt to allocate zero bytes

Have you fixed your BIOS's ACPI?  There is a nice page for Dell laptops
at http://sandcat.nl/~stijn/freebsd/dell.php