Dell Inspiron 8200 & ACPI-0293 [was Re: Dell 4150 & ACPI-0293: *** Warning: Buffer created with zero length in AML]

Thierry Thomas <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.mobile
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Le Dim 22 jui 03 à 21:30:59 +0200, Alistair Sutton <[email protected]>
 écrivait :
> Mutt (for some bizarre reason) was having problems with pasting the
> patch so that it was inline so I've attached it again and also put it
> online here:
> 
> http://www.no-dns-yet.org.uk/~everlone/dell-acpi-patch

Thanks, but it does not apply cleanly on mine:

#>acpidump -o insp4150.dsdt > insp4150.asl
#>iasl -d insp4150.dsdt

Intel ACPI Component Architecture
ASL Optimizing Compiler / AML Disassembler version 20030522 [Jun 14 2003]
Copyright (C) 2000 - 2003 Intel Corporation
Supports ACPI Specification Revision 2.0b

Loading Acpi table from file insp4150.dsdt
Acpi table [DSDT] successfully installed and loaded
Pass 1 parse of [DSDT]
Pass 2 parse of [DSDT]
Parsing Deferred Opcodes (Methods/Buffers/Packages/Regions)
.......................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
Parsing completed
Disassembly completed, written to "insp4150.dsl"

#>patch < dell-acpi-patch
Hmm...  Looks like a unified diff to me...
The text leading up to this was:
--------------------------
|--- insp4150_orig.asl  Wed May 14 02:07:27 2003
|+++ insp4150.asl       Tue May 27 22:18:14 2003
--------------------------
Patching file insp4150.asl using Plan A...
Hunk #1 failed at 120.
Hunk #2 failed at 133.
Hunk #3 failed at 153.
Hunk #4 failed at 217.
Hunk #5 failed at 238.
Hunk #6 failed at 277.
6 out of 6 hunks failed--saving rejects to insp4150.asl.rej
done

You wrote that you have an Inspiron 8200, like me; my BIOS version is
A09, perhaps does it matter?

Of course I could build my own patch by imitation, but I'm not enough
self assured...

Regards,
-- 
Th. Thomas.
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