ACPI error message; ACPI appears to be disabled by error.

2008-01-10 Thread Linda Walsh
I've had ACPI "work" before in the sense that the system booted properly (though I don't know that everything was correct as I've seemed to have infrequent system hangs -- not sure if related to ACPI or not, but I don't seem to get them when it is disabled. Odd thing is that with it enabled, s

dmi info requested...

2008-02-11 Thread Linda Walsh
ACPI: DMI System Vendor: Dell Inc. ACPI: DMI Product Name: Precision WorkStation 690 ACPI: DMI Product Version: ACPI: DMI Board Name: 0MY171 ACPI: DMI BIOS Vendor: Dell Inc. ACPI: DMI BIOS Date: 08/20/2007 ACPI: Please send DMI info above to linux-acpi@vger.kernel.o

Re: dmi info requested... - Dell - Precision WorkStation 690

2008-02-12 Thread Linda Walsh
Len Brown wrote: ACPI: If "acpi_osi=Linux" works better, please notify linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org That's sorta vague. What is meant by "works better"? Please send me the output from acpidump for the machine which printed out the DMI console messages above. Done (below). Would the ou