ACPI errors on boot

[Dan Ponte]

On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 10:00:49PM -0800, Doug White <dwhite at gumbysoft.com> was witnessed plotting the following conspiracy:
> On Sat, 12 Mar 2005, Dan Ponte wrote:
> 
> > I've been seeing lots of ACPI errors in my dmesg lately. They haven't
> > really affected functionality (yet!), but I'd like to see them resolved
> > nonetheless. I've googled all around, could not find a hint of a
> > solution. This machine is an ASUS CUSL2 motherboard with BIOS revision
> > 1009. Below is my dmesg.
> 
> ASUS motherboards are known to have broken ACPI code so this isn't too
> suprising.
> 
> >     ACPI-0252: *** Error: No object was returned from [\\_SB_.PCI0.PX40.UAR2._STA] (Node 0xc15b8dc0), AE_NOT_EXIST
> 
> This appears to be trying to get resource information for uart #2 (sio1).
> Since that port probes OK anyway its likely harmless.
> 
> If you want to try to clear these up, try a BIOS update first (if
> available), then look for a replacement DSDT table. You can use the loader
> options described in acpi(4) to load the fixed table.
> 
Hrm. I'll try the DSDT table, as the only update for this board is
marked as unstable and still in beta.
-Dan
-- 
Dan Ponte
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pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.
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