Dne četrtek 17 maj 2007 20:58 ste napisali: > First of all, why do you want/need to change your DSDT? > Second, patching DSDT is meant to be a last resort if any other > method, like finding error in our implementation of ACPI or drivers. Thank you for the reply. I *think* I need it because I didn't find any better solution. On my Acer Aspire 5022 for some time I've been getting APIC errors (most commonly "40 (40)") - which seem to cause system hangups, high cpu io-wait for (to me) no apparent reasons, high temperature and disability to resume from a suspend. This has been happening for quite a few kernel versions (gentoo kernel flavour). I was told the APIC errors should go away with a BIOS upgrade - so I did ...with no luck. Then someone suggested trying the Linux-ready Firmware Developer Kit ( http://www.linuxfirmwarekit.org ), on which my laptop('s BIOS) failed on 9 tests out of 21 (some of which even from DSDT). I can attach the results if you find them useful. Currently I run my system with the "noapic" kernel flag and with my DSDT patch. It seems to be happier then before I did this, but I feel it's still far from optimal. > So "better" DSDT patch is patch of zero length -- don't touch it, fix > ACPI or drivers. I agree that a solution by someone who knows what they're doing is a lot better then me (being a non-coder) trying to fiddle with ASL code. But it just drove me nuts... Btw, the patch I wrote eliminates 9 errors which seem to be connected with memory. But this still doesn't explain why it seems like I cannot make a user account on the acpi.sf.net/dsdt page and why my previous e-mail did not arrive to the list. Is the attachment size quota set to less then 1 MiB? best regards and kudos for all your hard work on ACPI! Matija Šuklje -- gsm: +386 41 849 552 e-mail: matija.suklje@xxxxxxxxx www: http://matija.suklje.name aim: hookofsilver icq: 110183360 jabber/g-talk: matija.suklje@xxxxxxxxxx msn: matija.suklje@xxxxxxxxx yahoo: matija_suklje
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