ACPI regressions

[Mike Makonnen]

On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 09:46:41AM -0800, David O'Brien wrote:
> 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

Interestingly when I tried it with 5.1-RELEASE (acpi not working well) and
5.2-BETA (acpi working well) it didn't make any difference. When I tried
it again after the acpi import, it fixed my problems:
o temperature information is good
o batter information is good
o I no longer get the UtAllocate errors

Cheers.
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