Re: Dell Inspiron 8600 ACPI doesn't like the BIOS
hello helen
you have to fix your acpi dsdt table and patching your kernel
see on acpi.sf.net
you can get there a fixed dsdt table and the kernel patch
jochen becker
Am Fr, den 05.03.2004 schrieb Helen Faulkner um 10:30:
> 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:
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 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.
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> I looked at /var/log/syslog, and it says this about acpi on bootup:
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> 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)
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
> 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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