Acpi problems with HP 6501b

[Matthieu Michaud]

Dominic Fandrey a écrit :
>> I have the same hardware running 7-stable and the same issue. Could it 
>> be fixed ? Does one need vendor information to do so ?
>>
> 
> The temperature issue is clearly a BIOS bug, but since we'll hardly get 
> HP to release a fixed BIOS for us this calls for one more sad entry in 
> the acpi quirks. Or the code could be changed, so that this message is 
> posted only once.

There must be some HP guy around understanding the problem.
Wilko do you read that ? ;)

> About the sleep states, I've got no idea. I'd love to go to suspend. On 
> all other machines I've ever run FreeBSD on "acpiconf -s 5 " started a 
> clean shutdown. It seems extraordinary to me, to claim to support the 
> states S3, S4 (BIOS!) and S5 and when trying to use them just get an 
> "Operation Not Supported". That looks more like a FreeBSD bug to me.
> 
> After my exams I'll experiment with acpidump to try insert a valid _CRT 
> value for tz0. I don't think I can do more without learning aml.

I'd be happy to suspend too ! However, except testing, I can't help on 
that. I got no idea how ACPI works.