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

Vincent Poy <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.mobile
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Wed, 25 Jun 2003, Jamie Bowden wrote:

> On Wed, 25 Jun 2003, Vincent Poy wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 25 Jun 2003, Stijn Hoop wrote:
>
> > 	Yeah, someone started the thread a week or so ago but they said
> > that the issue happens in Linux and also Windows but they can't prove it
> > happens in Windows or what the problem is exactly then when I got my new
> > HD to replace the one that crashed, I saw your link just in time and
> > thanks to your site and the patch, this is the first time I can run
> > FreeBSD -CURRENT in the last 9 months with the lid closed and the screen
> > off without suspending.
>
> I was going to migrate my Latitude C810 from 4-S to 5.1-R.  I'm guessing
> that since %90+ of the time it's in the dock with the lid closed this
> would be a bad idea?

	Actually, it works fine now with the DSDT patch.   What I can't
figure out is how to get XFree86 running on 5.1-CURRENT as the nv driver
won't install there at all with the Inspiron 8200.   The Latitude
C810/Inspiron 8100/Precision M40 are all the same hardware except for the
BIOS.


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