acer aspire 5002WLCi acpi problems

UnNaturalHigh · n00b Joined: 09 May 2004 Posts: 22

I have just recently purchased a acer aspire 5002 WLCi. After installing gentoo64 I moved on to tweaking the system for power management. The ondemand cpu stepper works great, but my acpi is all messed up. I have read around that it is due to a buggy dsdt. I have tried fixing it myself but have had no luck in getting to to work in the kernel with the custom dsdt. I was wondering if anyone has fixed this problem?
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Akhouk · Posted: Sat Jan 28, 2006 6:07 am Post subject:

I don't have the same model as you...I have a TravelMate 8104WLMi but I managed to fix mine by get a new DSTD from the linux ACPI site.

http://acpi.sourceforge.net/

If you browse through their fixes it does look like they have one for your laptop....

http://acpi.sourceforge.net/dsdt/view.php?id=538

Check the BIOS version...you might want to upgrade your BIOS too if there is a newer version available.
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blotto · Posted: Sat Jan 28, 2006 11:34 am Post subject:

I have an acer aspire 5024 and acpi works for me if I include the following kernel option in grub.conf