Re: ACPI HOWTO (draft #2)

[Moritz Moeller-Herrmann <mmh@gmx.net>]

Emma Jane Hogbin wrote:

> For those who are interested I've got my second draft of an ACPI HOWTO
> online.
> 
> http://xtrinsic.com/geek/articles/acpi.phtml
> 
> Please feel free to let me know if you there are any parts which are
> unclear or flat-out wrong. :)

I would mention the necessity and possibility to patch the DSDT for some
machines (e.g. the Thinkpad R31 and many others).
See here: 

http://www.intel.com/technology/iapc/acpi/bios_override.htm
http://home.fhtw-berlin.de/~s0502837/r31/
http://www.behnel.de/acpi/samsung-acpi.de.html
http://www.poupinou.org/acpi/over.html
http://acpi.sourceforge.net/dsdt/index.php

Some prepatched DSDT can be found here:
http://acpi.sourceforge.net/dsdt/tables/
http://home.fhtw-berlin.de/~s0502837/r31/patch/

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