[acpi-jp 2716] Dell D800 ACPI Issues

[Mike Hunter]

On Oct 07, "Nate Lawson" wrote:

> On Sun, 5 Oct 2003, Mike Hunter wrote:
> > I am trying to get acpi to work better on my Dell D800.  I see the
> > following warning message when I boot:
> >
> >         -0166: *** Error: UtAllocate: Attempt to allocate zero bytes
> >         -0166: *** Error: UtAllocate: Attempt to allocate zero bytes
> >         -0166: *** Error: UtAllocate: Attempt to allocate zero bytes
> >         -0166: *** Error: UtAllocate: Attempt to allocate zero bytes
> >
> > It repeats that quite a bit.
> 
> I've been following down this issue.  It is known.

Thanks.  I'm happy to test patches and such, just let me know.

Also, thanks for the advice about staying away from s[234]...it might be worth
mentioning in the acpiconf man page that they are experimental.  I'll also try
the config change you suggested for closing the lid.

> > I have flashed my bios up to A3 (the latest as of a month ago).
> >
> > I have placed acpidump and acpidump -d here:
> >
> > http://www.lusars.net/~mhunter/acpi.out
> > http://www.lusars.net/~mhunter/acpi.out.txt
> >
> > I will follow-up this post with some results of acpiconf...but I want to
> > send this first because I seem to remember that it makes my computer crash
> > :)
> >
> > My sources are from Sep. 29 (5.1-CURRENT)
> 
> It would help if you also send the output of acpidump -t.  This gives the
> fixed tables and is short.

/*
  RSD PTR: OEM=DELL, ACPI_Rev=1.0x (0)
        RSDT=0x1fff0000, cksum=98
 */
/*
  RSDT: Length=44, Revision=1, Checksum=208,
        OEMID=DELL, OEM Table ID=CPi R, OEM Revision=0x27d3050f,
        Creator ID=ASL, Creator Revision=0x61
        Entries={ 0x1fff0400, 0x1fff0800 }
 */
/*
  FADT: FACS=0x1ffff800, DSDT=0x1fff0c00
        INT_MODEL=PIC
        Preferred_PM_Profile=Unspecified (0)
        SCI_INT=9
        SMI_CMD=0xb2, ACPI_ENABLE=0x70, ACPI_DISABLE=0x71, S4BIOS_REQ=0x97
        PSTATE_CNT=0x80
        PM1a_EVT_BLK=0x800-0x803
        PM1a_CNT_BLK=0x804-0x805
        PM2_CNT_BLK=0x820-0x820
        PM_TMR_BLK=0x808-0x80b
        GPE0_BLK=0x828-0x82f
        P_LVL2_LAT=50 us, P_LVL3_LAT=50 us
        FLUSH_SIZE=0, FLUSH_STRIDE=0
        DUTY_OFFSET=1, DUTY_WIDTH=3
        DAY_ALRM=0, MON_ALRM=0, CENTURY=0
        IAPC_BOOT_ARCH= Flags={WBINVD,PROC_C1,PWR_BUTTON,SLP_BUTTON,DCK_CAP}
 */
/*
  FACS: Length=64, HwSig=0x0000007f, Firm_Wake_Vec=0x00000000
        Global_Lock=
        Flags=S4BIOS
        Version=0
 */
/*
  DSDT: Length=11563, Revision=1, Checksum=178,
        OEMID=INT430, OEM Table ID=SYSFexxx, OEM Revision=0x1001,
        Creator ID=MSFT, Creator Revision=0x100000e
 */
/*
  ASF!: Length=91, Revision=16, Checksum=122,
        OEMID=DELL, OEM Table ID=CPi R, OEM Revision=0x27d3050f,
        Creator ID=ASL, Creator Revision=0x61
 */