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

[Jan Mikael Melen]

On Wednesday 25 June 2003 05:54, Vincent Poy wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Jun 2003, Stijn Hoop wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 11:51:21PM +0200, Thierry Thomas wrote:
> > > Thanks, but it does not apply cleanly on mine:
> >
> > Could you try the instructions at
> >
> > http://sandcat.nl/~stijn/freebsd/dell.php
> >
> > Two other people have reported success for an Inspiron 8200, so it should
> > work.
>
> 	I tried the thing listed in the page and I could say that here is
> the behavior with the patch...
>
> With hw.acpi.lid_switch_state=S1
> the machine suspends but the LCD doesn't turn off and when you resume, the
> LCD doesn't update and is stuck with the info before the suspend until you
> reboot.

I also tried the patch and for me it works so that the machine suspends but 
the LCD doesn't turn off. After resume the LCD is turned off if the computer 
has been on text console when suspending and if the computer has been running 
X before suspending the LCD flahes few times after which the LCD is turned 
back on.

Every time the computer suspends and after resume following messages can be 
read from the console:

fwohci0: fwohci_pci_suspend
fwohci0: fwohci_pci_resume: power_state = 0x00000000
fwohci0: Phy 1394a available S400, 1 ports.
fwohci0: Link S400, max_rec 2048 bytes.
fwohci0: Initiate bus reset
wakeup from sleeping state (slept 00:00:25)
ata0: resetting devices ..
fwohci0: node_id=0xc000ffc0, gen=1, CYCLEMASTER mode
fwohci0: txd err= 0 No stat
this shouldn't happen
firewire0: 1 nodes, maxhop <= 0, cable IRM = 0 (me)
firewire0: bus manager 0 (me)
done
ata1: resetting devices ..
done
Jun 25 11:17:34 despair kernel: wakeup from sleeping state (slept 00:00:25)

Interesting is the line saying "this shouldn't happen" the question is what 
shouldn't happen?

> 	So just for the record, I'm on a Inspiron 8200 with the A10 BIOS.

I'm running Inspiron 8200 with A09 BIOS

> 	Also, are most of you guys using the BIOS to control the fans or
> are you using the following utility?
>
> http://www.geocities.com/fanonbsd/

I'm using BIOS to control the fans.

Cheers,
Jan