Dell Inspiron 8600 ACPI doesn't like the BIOS
Hi,
I'm installing debian unstable onto my new Dell Inspiron 8600, and things are
going OK, but I can't get ACPI to work.
I have the Nvidia GeForce4 4200 Go video card, which I'm running with the debian
nvidia package driver - works fine once I got XF86Config-4 right for my 1200*800
screen. I have the A04 BIOS version from the Dell website. I've installed the
acpi and acpid packages, but they don't work.
Using modconf to insert acpi modules gets me this kind of thing:
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Installing module battery. If the device isn't there, or isn't configured
correctly, this could cause your system to pause for up to a minute.
/lib/modules/2.4.24-1-686/kernel/drivers/acpi/battery.o: init_module: No such device
Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including
invalid IO or IRQ parameters.
You may find more information in syslog or the output from dmesg
/lib/modules/2.4.24-1-686/kernel/drivers/acpi/battery.o: insmod
/lib/modules/2.4.24-1-686/kernel/drivers/acpi/battery.o failed
/lib/modules/2.4.24-1-686/kernel/drivers/acpi/battery.o: insmod battery failed
Installation failed.
Please press ENTER when you are ready to continue.
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I looked at /var/log/syslog, and it says this about acpi on bootup:
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Mar 5 09:19:49 mymachine kernel: ACPI: have wakeup address 0xc0001000
Mar 5 09:19:49 mymachine kernel: On node 0 totalpages: 130990
Mar 5 09:19:49 mymachine kernel: zone(0): 4096 pages.
Mar 5 09:19:49 mymachine kernel: zone(1): 126894 pages.
Mar 5 09:19:49 mymachine kernel: zone(2): 0 pages.
Mar 5 09:19:49 mymachine kernel: Dell Inspiron with broken BIOS detected.
Refusing to enable the local APIC.
Mar 5 09:19:49 mymachine kernel: ACPI: RSDP (v000 DELL
) @ 0x000fdf00
Mar 5 09:19:49 mymachine kernel: ACPI: RSDT (v001 DELL CPi R 0x27d4010c
ASL 0x00000061) @ 0x1fff0000
Mar 5 09:19:49 mymachine kernel: ACPI: FADT (v001 DELL CPi R 0x27d4010c
ASL 0x00000061) @ 0x1fff0400
Mar 5 09:19:49 mymachine kernel: ACPI: DSDT (v001 INT430 SYSFexxx 0x00001001
MSFT 0x0100000e) @ 0x00000000
[...]
Mar 5 09:19:49 mymachine kernel: ACPI: Subsystem revision 20031002
Mar 5 09:19:49 mymachine kernel: ACPI: Interpreter disabled.
Mar 5 09:19:49 mymachine kernel: PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfc97e,
last bus=2
Mar 5 09:19:49 mymachine kernel: PCI: Using configuration type 1
Mar 5 09:19:49 mymachine kernel: PCI: Probing PCI hardware
Mar 5 09:19:49 mymachine kernel: PCI: ACPI tables contain no PCI IRQ routing
entries
Mar 5 09:19:49 mymachine kernel: PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
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Now various websites suggest that you can get ACPI working for this laptop, but
I haven't found one for debian, and I'm scared to try to patch the kernel or
something when I don't know what I'm doing. It seems to me that the problem is
with Dell's BIOS, but I'm hoping there is something I can do to get the acpi
stuff going.
Does anyone have a suggestion?
Thanks,
Helen Faulkner
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