acpi patch for dell laptop?

[Julian Elischer]

doesn't work for several models.. Including Inspiron 7500.
WHo knows enough about this to be able to look at debug info
I have?

My system gives lots of:
acpi_cpu: throttling enabled, 8 steps (100% to 12.5%), currently 100.0%
    ACPI-0432: *** Error: Handler for [EmbeddedControl] returned
AE_ERROR
    ACPI-1287: *** Error: Method execution failed [\\_SB_.BAT1._STA]
(Node 0xc167ed60), AE_ERROR
    ACPI-0340: *** Error: Could not release ACPI Global Lock,
AE_BAD_PARAMETER
    ACPI-0340: *** Error: Could not release ACPI Global Lock,
AE_BAD_PARAMETER
ad0: 24207MB <IBM-DARA-225000> [49184/16/63] at ata0-master UDMA33
    ACPI-0340: *** Error: Could not release ACPI Global Lock,
AE_BAD_PARAMETER
acd0: DVD-ROM <TOSHIBA DVD-ROM SD-C2402> at ata1-master UDMA33
Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad0s4a
    ACPI-0340: *** Error: Could not release ACPI Global Lock,
AE_BAD_PARAMETER
    ACPI-0340: *** Error: Could not release ACPI Global Lock,
AE_BAD_PARAMETER
    ACPI-0340: *** Error: Could not release ACPI Global Lock,
AE_BAD_PARAMETER
    ACPI-0340: *** Error: Could not release ACPI Global Lock,
AE_BAD_PARAMETER
[...]



On Sun, 22 Jun 2003, Kenneth D. Merry wrote:

> On Sat, Jun 21, 2003 at 00:13:10 +0200, Stijn Hoop wrote:
> > On Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 05:29:30PM -0400, Mike Sturdee wrote:
> > > Where can I find the latest, greatest patch that fixes this?
> > 
> > Try this URL:
> > 
> > http://sandcat.nl/~stijn/freebsd/dell.php
> > 
> > and let me know if it works.
> 
> It seems to work for me.  The ACPI warnings about zero length buffers go
> away at least.
> 
> I've got a Dell Inspirion 8500, A03 BIOS.
> 
> Ken
> -- 
> Kenneth Merry
> ken at kdm.org
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