Installation report for Acer TravelMate 8100

[wax_weasle]

Gary Coady Wrote: 
> I got my laptop back yesterday, so here are some more comments:
> By adding earlyprink=vga to the boot parameters, I came across an
> error
> like "IOAPIC[1]: Unable change apic_id!"
> 
> From this, I found a patch at
> http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0502.1/1450.html which
> got
> ACPI working for me.
> 
> ACPI seems sorta happy with the above patch; there ARE errors in the
> DSDT, which should probably be replaced (the only errors in the AML
> are
> for an unknown object Z00F, which I replaced with 0xffffffff with no
> obvious bad effects).
> 
> Charging/discharging state is detected.
> 
> Battery level doesn't appear to be detected (with Ubuntu 2.6.10 +
> above
> patch), but was detected with 2.6.12-rc1 + patch, so there's a fix
> somewhere in the main tree.
> 
> CPU frequency scaling is unsupported (well - detected, but 
> unchangeable). Again, that worked for me with 2.6.12-rc1, so that can 
> probably be fixed too.
> 
> I would expect all the above to work with 2.6.11 (+ patch). 2.6.12-rc1
> 
> is supposed to support the audio (Intel HDA), but while I could control
> 
> the volume with that version, I couldn't actually hear anything. It's 
> possible that I missed something in my mixer setup though.
> 
> Gary.
> 
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Good to hear that acpi is already fixed in 2.6.12. Do you have good
performance  with the dvd or is it just like us?


Vincent


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