-0166: *** Error: UtAllocate: Attempt to alloc

[Christoph P. Kukulies]

On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 04:58:51AM -0500, Seth Chandler wrote:
> You using a dell laptop?  They got the broken acpi aml code.  There is a 
> patch out to fix it, its located here:
> 
> http://sandcat.nl/~stijn/freebsd/dell.php

Thanks. Applied it and it seems to cure the problem. Also xbatt 
shows the battery status now correctly.

Nov 10 20:05:24 mybook kernel: acpi0: <DELL   CPi R  > on motherboard
Nov 10 20:05:24 mybook kernel: pcibios: BIOS version 2.10
Nov 10 20:05:24 mybook kernel: Using $PIR table, 10 entries at 0xc00fbc20
Nov 10 20:05:24 mybook kernel: Timecounter "ACPI-fast" frequency 3579545 Hz q
uality 1000
Nov 10 20:05:24 mybook kernel: acpi_timer0: <24-bit timer at 3.579545MHz> por
t 0x808-0x80b on acpi0
Nov 10 20:05:24 mybook kernel: acpi_cpu0: <CPU> on acpi0
Nov 10 20:05:24 mybook kernel: acpi_tz0: <Thermal Zone> on acpi0
Nov 10 20:05:24 mybook kernel: acpi_acad0: <AC Adapter> on acpi0
Nov 10 20:05:24 mybook kernel: acpi_cmbat0: <Control Method Battery> on acpi0
Nov 10 20:05:24 mybook kernel: acpi_cmbat1: <Control Method Battery> on acpi0
Nov 10 20:05:24 mybook kernel: acpi_lid0: <Control Method Lid Switch> on acpi
0
Nov 10 20:05:24 mybook kernel: acpi_button0: <Power Button> on acpi0
Nov 10 20:05:24 mybook kernel: acpi_button1: <Sleep Button> on acpi0
Nov 10 20:05:24 mybook kernel: pcib0: <ACPI Host-PCI bridge> port 0xcf8-0xcff
 on acpi0
Nov 10 20:05:24 mybook kernel: pci0: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib0
Nov 10 20:05:24 mybook kernel: pcib0: slot 31 INTD is routed to irq 10
Nov 10 20:05:24 mybook kernel: agp0: <Intel 82815 (i815 GMCH) host to PCI bri
dge> mem 0xe8000000-0xebffffff at device 0.0 on pci0
Nov 10 20:05:24 mybook kernel: pcib1: <ACPI PCI-PCI bridge> at device 1.0 on


> 
> seth
> 
> 
> C. Kukulies wrote:
> 
> >...ate zero bytes
> >
> >The kernel message
> >
> >-0166: *** Error: UtAllocate: Attempt to allocate zero bytes
> >-0166: *** Error: UtAllocate: Attempt to allocate zero bytes
> >-0166: *** Error: UtAllocate: Attempt to allocate zero bytes
> >-0166: *** Error: UtAllocate: Attempt to allocate zero bytes
> >
> >clobbers the screen in bursts during startup for quite some time now.
> >I would like to ask if there is something I can do about it.
> >Upgrading (cvsup)? Edit some config files with senseful info?
> >
> >AFAIK it has to do something with acpi, doesn't it?


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