acpi patch for dell laptop?

[Eirik Oeverby]

Hi again,

No workie. No difference in behaviour whatsoever.
Sorry :(

/Eirik

On Mon, 23 Jun 2003 13:43:14 -0400
Jesse Guardiani <jesse at wingnet.net> wrote:

> Eirik Oeverby wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 23 Jun 2003 10:53:32 -0400
> > Jesse Guardiani <jesse at wingnet.net> wrote:
> > 
> >> > And with ACPI disabled, the machine refuses totally to
> >> > boot, it hangs at 'Mounting root from ...'. If I undock the
> >machine,> > I can boot with and without ACPI, with the latter option
> >being the> > only usable (stable) mode.
> >> 
> >> Just out of curiosity, have you tried setting
> >> 
> >> hw.pci.allow_unsupported_io_range=1
> >> 
> >> in your /boot/device.hints file? I've found that this option fixes
> >> many unbootable laptops - especially thinkpads.
> > 
> > Hmm.. Yes, I think I have. Atleast it's in my device.hints file now
> > - however I don't know if I tried docking it and booting without
> > ACPI after I put that line in.. Perhaps I should try again, but my
> > gut feeling tells me it's not gonna make any difference. Atleast as
> > long as its undocked it had no effect on any of the other problems
> > I'm experiencing.
> 
> Try again and let me know.
> 
> 
> > 
> > /Eirik
> 
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