On Sun, Jan 16, 2005 at 05:43:56PM +0100, VU NGOC San wrote: > it also works for me, thanks ! (288712) > > (works means that, as before, ACPI does not work on the dell latitude > d800, but at least I can manually turn off the laptop with the power > button, and the "hardware call" to BIOS using the battery key works, so I > can check battery status this way) > > actually no more message about ACPI shows up anymore on dmesg... > in previous versions I had something like this: > > Dell Latitude with broken BIOS detected. Refusing to enable the local > APIC. > ACPI: RSDP (v000 DELL ) @ 0x000fdf00 > ACPI: RSDT (v001 DELL CPi R 0x27d4010c ASL 0x00000061) @ 0x1fff0000 > ACPI: FADT (v001 DELL CPi R 0x27d4010c ASL 0x00000061) @ 0x1fff0400 > ACPI: ASF! (v016 DELL CPi R 0x27d4010c ASL 0x00000061) @ 0x1fff0800 > ACPI: DSDT (v001 INT430 SYSFexxx 0x00001001 MSFT 0x0100000e) @ 0x00000000
Unfortunately I think that is about as good as it is going to get on that hardware. As I understand it is known not to work with local APIC, though I am not sure of the details why. > it seems however that the i8k module (fan control) does not work anymore. > Maybe I need some more testing > (I used to launch it using > modprobe i8k force=1) Please let me know if you make any progress there. -- Horms -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
