I've read a lot of the recent Dell Inspiron posts on current@, and even tried the Dell AML patch (doesn't apply on the 5150, Stijn). Most things seems to be working for ACPI except for battery status and suspend/resume (the laptop suspends, but never comes back). Here is what dmesg reports for ACPI:
FreeBSD 5.1-CURRENT #14: Mon Aug 4 18:11:11 EDT 2003
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GYROS
....
acpi0: <DELL MwoodNwd> on motherboard
pcibios: BIOS version 2.10
Using $PIR table, 9 entries at 0xc00fdf30
ACPI-1287: *** Error: Method execution failed
[\\_SB_.PCI0.LPCB.BAT1._STA] (Node 0xc6137640), AE_NOT_EXIST
acpi0: power button is handled as a fixed feature programming model.
Timecounter "ACPI-fast" frequency 3579545 Hz
ACPI-1287: *** Error: Method execution failed
[\\_SB_.PCI0.LPCB.BAT1._STA] (Node 0xc6137640), AE_NOT_EXIST
acpi_timer0: <24-bit timer at 3.579545MHz> port 0x1008-0x100b on acpi0
acpi_cpu0: <CPU> on acpi0
acpi_cpu1: <CPU> on acpi0
acpi_tz0: <thermal zone> on acpi0
acpi_button0: <Power Button> on acpi0
acpi_button1: <Sleep Button> on acpi0
acpi_lid0: <Control Method Lid Switch> on acpi0
If anyone has some suggestions, I'd be happy to hear them. I realize
more info may be required, so if you're interested, I'll gladly send you
what you need. Thanks.
Joe
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