I have a laptop (a Samsung P28) which suffers from a bad ACPI DSDT and so fails to do such simple things as telling me the battery state.
I have found a variety of documents through Google which tell me how to fix this, but they are all aimed at non-Debian systems. There is reference to a kernel option which enables the loading of DSDT data as part of an INITRD image, but I can not find it in the 2.6.9 kernel options. It may be that it was an option in 2.4 but is now an automatic part of a 2.6 kernel, but I am not sure. I found a souce TAR of the ACPI utilities, including iasl which is needed to patch the DSDT. But it fails due to an an unsupported table (or some such). However copying the file from /proc/acpi/dsdt into a temporary file and then running iasl on that fixed that problem. But the DSDT did not seem to follow the layout in the docs, but I will persevere in trying to sort that problem. In http://gaugusch.at/kernel.shtml there is a discussion about the kernel patch, along with a links to versions for various kernels. It also mentions that the SuSE kernels now ship with this included in their stock kernels, but it does not mention Debian. Does anyone know whether the Debian 2.6 (I am using 2.6.9) kernels are built with the patch? Regards David -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
