ACPI errors on boot

Mark Santcroos marks at ripe.net
Wed Jun 18 08:38:40 PDT 2003


On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 09:11:23AM +0200, Maikel Verheijen wrote:
> I have recently installed FreeBSD 5.1 on my Dell C800 laptop, and I get
> quite a lot (well: 48 :) of these errors on boot:
> 
>     ACPI-0293: *** Warning: Buffer created with zero length in AML
>         -0166: *** Error: UtAllocate: Attempt to allocate zero bytes
> 
> Are those harmfull? Is there something I can do with it? Otherwise my laptop
> is working perfectly... :)
             ^^^^^^^^^
I have serious doubts on that. I'm pretty sure your battery status won't
be showed correctly.

Fix is in the archives of this and/or acpi-jp@ list.

Mark

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