Re: Toshiba ACPI battery status - ACPI errors

From: Bernt Hansen
Date: Mon Nov 24 2003 - 16:26:12 EST


Jun,

I'd be happy to provide any data to get this problem fixed... how do I
generate an ACPI dump? I've never done that before.

Bernt

On Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 01:04:22PM -0800, Nakajima, Jun wrote:
> I suspect this is a known issue with AML code from Toshiba. Their _STA
> does not return a value explicitly, but (wrongly) expects the AML
> interpreter to get the return value returned by the function _STA is
> calling, like
> Method (_STA, ....) {
> AAA(...)
> }
> Instead of
> Method (_STA, ....) {
> Return (AAA(...))
> }
>
> If you can provide ACPI dump data of the machine, that would be helpful
> when identifying the cause. Copy the ACPI mailing list and Len.
--
Bernt Hansen Norang Consulting Inc.
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