Re: [ACPI] General ACPI/Linux question

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On Sun, 2003-01-26 at 17:37, S=E9rgio Monteiro Basto wrote:
> Compaq presarios 7xx have a problem with APIC (Advance Programmer
> interrupt control ) that still to be resolved, so if you have a stable

so if you want have a stable

> computer, and work with acpi  you have to disable APIC from kernel.
> I think this same problem reflexes in compaq presario 17xx.=20
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> http://dude.noc.clara.net/~faye/compaq2701ea/
> http://www.pps.jussieu.fr/~jch/software/presario/
> http://wwwhome.cs.utwente.nl/~berensch/compaq.html
> http://www.geocities.com/adrianturcu/presario724EA.html
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> http://codecs.home.sapo.pt/
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> S=E9rgio Basto=20
> On Sun, 2003-01-26 at 15:55, Constantinos Antoniou wrote:
> > On Sun, 2003-01-26 at 08:23, Philippe Cl=E9ri=E9 wrote:
> > > For what it's worth, I have ACPI working fine on a 1700T with=20
> > > Gentoo Linux and kernel 2.4.20-acpi-r9. As far as I can tell=20
> > > this kernel is vanilla + acpi 20021212. No modifications were=20
> > > needed.=20
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> > This is very nice to hear.=20
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> > > This is the first kernel I have tried that gave me some info on=20
> > > the battery. klaptop is working and shows a battery icon when=20
> > > on battery or an AC plug when on AC. And it pops up a message=20
> > > when battery power is low. But it does not show whether=20
> > > capacity is at 90, 50 or 20%.=20
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> > Having the ability to (at least) gracefully shutdown is a "good thing"
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> > > I have not checked any of the sleep modes since I don't use them=20
> > > at all so I can't comment on that.
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> > Could you or anybody else perhaps provide some feedback on the attached
> > image? I have compiled a vanilla 2.4.20 with acpi-20021212-2.4.20.diff.
> > When I try to boot it freezes at the point of the attached (camera
> > captured - ~280K image) point.
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> > http://mit.edu/costas/www/img_0092.jpg
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> > Please let me know if any other information would help.
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> > Thanks,
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> > Costas
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> > > For the moment I'm happy.
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> > > Regards,
> > > Philippe
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> > > On Saturday, 25 January 2003 20:54, Constantinos Antoniou wrote:
> > > > Hello,
> > > >
> > > > I have a laptop (Compaq Presarion 1700T) and would really
> > > > really like to have some ACPI support (battery status is very
> > > > important, suspend to ram or disk - anything faster than
> > > > reboot- would be very very useful and welcome).
> > > >
> > > > I have not tried every possible trick, and in any case I am
> > > > hoping to get some things working this year... either with
> > > > the introduction of ACPI in RH8.1 or otherwise (ok, this is
> > > > not flame-bait. Let me move on
> > > >
> > > > :)) This is not a system/problem specific post, however.
> > > >
> > > > My question is: One of the most usual things I see in the
> > > > various newsgroup posts is that DSDT tables are buggy, and
> > > > people need to disassemble them, edit them, replace them etc
> > > > etc. However, windows power management on the same machines
> > > > works. So what is the situation?
> > > >
> > > > The way I (don't) understand it, the ACPI implementation
> > > > expects some things to be defined correctly in the DSDT
> > > > table. However, some OSes manage to work with whatever is
> > > > there.
> > > >
> > > > And to go one step further, if I change this DSDT thingie,
> > > > will the ACPI functionality in the other OSes still work? So,
> > > > would an option be to be more lenient (I understand that
> > > > there are standards and people should respect them...)
> > > >
> > > > Thanks in advance and please be considerate in the replies -
> > > > IANA ACPI expert.
> > > >
> > > > Costas
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> > Constantinos Antoniou
> > Ph.D. Candidate
> > Massachusetts Institute of Technology
> > Intelligent Transportation Systems Program
> > 77 Massachusetts Ave., NE20-208, Cambridge, MA 02139
> > (T) 617-252-1113 * (F) 617-252-1130 * (email) co...@mi...
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