[ltp] Latest T30 BIOS & ACPI

[Peter Johanson]

On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 08:55:55PM -0400, Mike_Phillips@URSCorp.com wrote:
> Be careful. Yes, updating the bios to 2.04 does get acpi working, but not 
> with the latest acpi patches. I've got 2.5.66 working, anything later and 
> the kernel panics during boot. 

Try the mm patchset then. i've had the same problems with ACPI not
working with the plain development sources. using andrew morton's
patchset, things *mostly* work. Before the BIOS upgrade everything was
working with 2.5.70-mm6, using that small patch for the ECDT table.


-pete
> 
> Mike
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Peter Johanson <latexer@gentoo.org>
> Sent by: linux-thinkpad-admin@linux-thinkpad.org
> 06/09/03 01:08 PM
> Please respond to linux-thinkpad
> 
>  
>         To:     linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
>         cc: 
>         Subject:        [ltp] Latest T30 BIOS & ACPI
> 
> 
> i just upgraded the BIOS and embedded controller on my T30 to the latest
> released from the IBM website. before this, i'd been using the small
> patch to ACPI to use your own custom ECDT table. After the BIOS
> upgraded, the verify_table little program now declares the BIOS is fine,
> and lo and behold 2.5.7-mm6 now detects the ACPI stuff!
> 
> BUT, i'm having a very wierd problem with my keyboard after closing and
> re-opening the lid. Alt + F# still works to switch between terminals,
> but all other keyboard response seems dead.
> 
> i'm gonna try LKML, but first i wanted to see if others had had any
> experiences with this latest BIOS. specifically does 2.4.x plus the ACPI
> patches work for people with this BIOS version? anybody have similar
> problems?
> 
> -pete
> -- 
> Peter Johanson
> <latexer@gentoo.org>
> -- 
> The linux-thinkpad mailing list home page is at:
> http://mailman.linux-thinkpad.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-thinkpad
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> The linux-thinkpad mailing list home page is at:
> http://mailman.linux-thinkpad.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-thinkpad
> 

-- 
Peter Johanson
<latexer@gentoo.org>