On Sat, 2003-08-16 at 01:05, Xavier Maillard wrote: > Hello, > > Thanks to Martin, I have stated I should give another try to ACPI on my > laptop. > > After little effort and RTFM, I did something but I am kind of blocked > now. > > Here is a resume of the things I've done: > > 1. Download needed tools (iasl, acpidump) > 2. Dump my current (broken) DSDT : acpidump -o dell.dsdt >dell.asl > 3. Disassemble the resulted file: iasl -d dell.dsdt > 4. Fix the dsl > 5. Recompile the resulted ASL: iasl dell.dsl > > and that's all for now. > > Here is a brief look at my current working directory containing the > files I am working on: > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 62477 2003-08-16 00:58 dell.asl > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 12666 2003-08-16 00:58 dell.dsdt > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 90709 2003-08-16 00:58 dell.dsl > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 11864 2003-08-16 00:59 DSDT.aml > > Note that the DSDT.aml is the result of the recompilation command. > > So what do I have to do right now with all this stuff ?? You will need to get a recent vanilla kernel, patch it with acpi and the patch for custom dsdt from http://gaugusch.at/kernel.shtml The kernel, that i gave you the link for, allready supports this. With that you can just copy you aml file somewhere (for example /boot) and let the kernel calling it on boot by specifying it as the initrd boot image (initrd=/boot/dell.aml) in lilo.conf, running lilo, rebooting and you are up and running. Regards, Martin List-Petersen martin at list-petersen dot se -- It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to put trust in ideas, and not in circumstances. -- Emerson
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