On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 7:51 AM, Carlos E. R.
The Thursday 2008-06-05 at 18:43 -0700, Andreas wrote:
And did you report it on bugzilla?
Nope. I just wouldn't know how to get what kind of information to file a substantiated bug report in this case.
They should tell you what they need.
I think the big problem Linux faces getting ACPI to work is that every DSDT appears to be different, and to have different bugs. I have three computers new enough to have fully functional ACPI under Win-XP[1], but none of them work correctly with Linux. (One of them used to sort of work back with SuSE 7.*, or 8.* [2] but stopped working as Linux ACPI got more particular about the quality of the DSDT it had to work with). Decompiling, then recompiling their DSDT's without major corrections produces large numbers of errors and warnings (different for all three). What is needed more than hundreds of bugzilla filings about broken ACPI, is a self-help mailing list or Wiki for debugging DSDT's, because the openSUSE ACPI team's attempt to development a cure for all computers ACPI problems is rather futile at this point. [1] I do _not_ use Win-XP, and "fully functional" is defined here as meaning "every tenth hibernation or so, the computer fails to come back to life". [2] "Sort of work": several times while powering off, Linux sent the bios into an illegal state which required a call to the manufacturer's help line in order to learn a technique to perform a special reset which requires long flexible fingers on one hand, and extreme dexterity with the other. I also suspect that Linux fried the battery (but it continues to work well on AC power, so that doesn't bother me too much.) PS: I only really require that Linux be able to use ACPI to power off my computers, which it does quite well. But I am slightly worried about using Linux on one of the computers because Linux cannot read the temperature, and the fan stopped going into high speed mode around openSUSE-10.1. I noticed several ACPI fan bugs on bugzilla, and not wishing to file a duplicate, joined in -- the bugs immediately went totally silent, and haven't had a new posting since! (I am not complaining mind you, just adding this in to emphasize how overworked the ACPI people are.) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org