Here we unfourtunately have many Dell Optiple 320 machines, its hardware profile has been sent out to smolts: http://www.smolts.org/client/show/pub_32cc3df5-67af-42e9-806a-20dd25f47757 It have notorious ACPI support problem, almost all Linux distros cannot run well on this hardware (CDROM cannot boot, or cannot install, or can install but cannot boot from hard disk) except a China Linux distro RedFlag 5.0 (it runs with ACPI enabled well, but why?) some distros can run with acpi=off on it, Today I found the article on override DSDT, I think this may solve this problem, http://www.lesswatts.org/projects/acpi/overridingDSDT.php But with this section, How to Build a custom DSDT into the kernel 1. Get original DSDT: # cp /proc/acpi/dsdt DSDT or # acpidump > acpidump.out The problem is how to get /proc/acpi/dsdt with acpi=off? if boot without "acpi=off", the kernel will hang, reproduce always, if boot with "acpi=off", there's no /proc/acpi nor /sys/devices/platform/acpi/... So the problem is: Is there any other approach to get the DSDT? -- Cheng Renquan, Shenzhen, China Jim Bishop - "Golf is played by twenty million mature American men whose wives think they are out having f... -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
