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adamruss

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Registered: 2008-01-17

Posts: 143

acpi - dsdt help

well, i am trying the move from debian to arch, i am ready to give up i cannot get my hotkeys to work!
on debian - i had a file called /proc/acpi/dsdt and i edited it and made my own custom dsdt table and all the hotkeys worked!
i have no such file on arch! i tried to take my debian dsdt table, put it in mkinitcpio, and even tried recompiling the kernel with the custom dsdt - but when i do that it dosent even boot!
when i use acpi_listen it does recognize the keys! - i installed acpi acpid hal and asus_acpi nothing created /proc/acpi/dsdt - anyone has an idea what am i missing?
i'm using arch core dump, gnome, asus G1 laptop.

thanks!!

Shaika-Dzari

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From: Québec, Canada

Registered: 2006-04-14

Posts: 436

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Re: acpi - dsdt help

Hello!
First look here: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Asus_G1

You should load asus-laptop module and disable asus_acpi.
To have my key working on my asus F3F, I modified /etc/acpi/handler.sh.

To have the key code, use tail:

tail -f /var/log/acpid

@+

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adamruss

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Registered: 2008-01-17

Posts: 143

Re: acpi - dsdt help

i have loaded asus-laptop already, it is wird that it does not make a dsdt table... anyone?

loosec

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Registered: 2007-03-08

Posts: 134

Re: acpi - dsdt help

The installer asks if you want to use a custom DSDT file when configuring the system, is hotkeys what that is about then?

airstep

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Registered: 2008-01-21

Posts: 54

Re: acpi - dsdt help

I'm also want to share what a mistakes I found in this area.
My laptop is Dell Inspiron 6400 and dmesg show this:

dmesg | grep error
ACPI: Looking for DSDT in initramfs... error, file /DSDT.aml not found.

I have bind my hotkeys to work by xbindkeys. But also I don't like this error message.
I found methods how to compile DSDT.aml. But when I try to do this(try to compile) I'm got many errors.

The big question - what can we do now?

zyghom

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From: Poland/currently Africa

Registered: 2006-05-11

Posts: 432

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Re: acpi - dsdt help

I'm also want to share what a mistakes I found in this area.
My laptop is Dell Inspiron 6400 and dmesg show this:

dmesg | grep error
ACPI: Looking for DSDT in initramfs... error, file /DSDT.aml not found.

I have bind my hotkeys to work by xbindkeys. But also I don't like this error message.
I found methods how to compile DSDT.aml. But when I try to do this(try to compile) I'm got many errors.

The big question - what can we do now?

I successfully did this DSDT stuff but I'm not sure if this solves my battery issue

Jan 21 11:48:47 baboon ACPI: DSDT 7FFB05B0, 4BBF (r1  17190 17190000        0 INTL 20051117)
Jan 21 11:48:47 baboon ACPI: Looking for DSDT in initramfs... successfully read 19391 bytes from /DSDT.aml.
Jan 21 11:48:47 baboon ACPI: Table DSDT replaced by host OS
Jan 21 11:48:47 baboon ACPI: DSDT 00000000, 4BBF (r1  17190 17190000        0 INTL 20061109)
Jan 21 11:48:47 baboon ACPI: DSDT override uses original SSDTs unless "acpi_no_auto_ssdt"ACPI: setting ELCR to 0eb8 (from 0cb8)

If so then I can provide wiki for customer DSDT on Arch
just give me few days to be sure it is ok now

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airstep

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Registered: 2008-01-21

Posts: 54

Re: acpi - dsdt help

Ok. That's would be wonderful.

tnx

zyghom

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From: Poland/currently Africa

Registered: 2006-05-11

Posts: 432

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Re: acpi - dsdt help

i installed acpi acpid hal and asus_acpi nothing created /proc/acpi/dsdt - anyone has an idea what am i missing?

thanks!!

what about: acpidump --table DSDT -b -o dsdt.dat

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airstep

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Registered: 2008-01-21

Posts: 54

Re: acpi - dsdt help

So, I'm just have E-Mail from zyghom:

did not help
2.6.24 also - they say corrected - but not working as well :-(
do, DSDT corrected but no influence on batter/ac problem :-(

link

adamruss

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Registered: 2008-01-17

Posts: 143

Re: acpi - dsdt help

bash: acpidump: command not found

zyghom

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From: Poland/currently Africa

Registered: 2006-05-11

Posts: 432

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Re: acpi - dsdt help

bash: acpidump: command not found

/usr/sbin/acpidump is owned by pmtools 20071116-1

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Zygfryd Homonto