[ACPI] ACPI 20020503-2.4.18 report on Dell Inspiron 8100

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Here are my results on my initial testing.  I have made comments 
relating to relevant changes or similarities between 20020503 and 
20020404.

System Dell Inspiron 8100 Bios A07
Kernel 2.4.18
ACPI 20020503 - No patches applied

/proc/acpi - Able to read all information without problems.

CPU performance setting - Processor can be manually stepped between 
800Mhz and 1.2GHz.  

CPU throtteling - Not supported in hardware.

Battery and power information correct.

Power state change - Working, previously in 20020404 switching to or 
from ac power would cause the machine to freeze.

Interrupts - Correctly assigned, 20020404 required the pciirq patches 
from Dominik.

Orinoco Wireless card - Working (using pcmcia-cs-1.3.22), previous 
failures in 20020404 were symptomatic of irq problems.

Halt/Shutdown (S5) - Does not power off machine.  Shutdown proceeds 
normally until "power down" console message where LCD stays on and 
system does not power down.  The system will power down by holding the 
power button for 4s.  This behaviour was the same in 20020404.

S1 - Causes system to freeze, with LCD on.  Pressing the power button 
causes the LCD to blank.  System will not wake up, has to be powered 
off using the power button.  This behaviour was the same in 20020404.

USB/IEEE1394 - Not tested

Lid Switch - Not tested

I have not tested X windows but do not envisage any problems as this 
was working in 20020404.

Any suggestions of how to debug S5 (shutdown) would be appreciated.  
Given the curent working state of the ACPI support I am considering 
using it in my primary kernel, getting the S5 support working would be 
a real bonus for this.

Great work, This system at least seems to be nearly there.

Cheers,

Phil


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