Installation Reports

Users reports of installing ACPI on various machines. See also Fixed Dsdts.

Linux Distributions

Suse 8.1:

Debian Linux:

Mandrake 9.1:

Gentoo Linux


Machines

Compaq Presario 735CA

Have not patched the DSDT

Acer Travel Mate 225X

Have not patched the DSDT

Acer Travel Mate 634

Have not patched the DSDT

Acer Travel Mate 620

Acer Travel Mate 800

Acer Aspire 1703SM

Acer Aspire 1705SCi

Acer Aspire 1350

Acer Aspire 2001Wlci

Biostar IDEQ 200V

Cebop SLC Morgaine (has SiS M650 + 962 chipset)

Compaq Presario 2800T (same as Evo 800N)

With the fixed DSDT, everything seems to be working fine.

Dell Latitude C640

Original DSDT:

Patched DSDT:

Dell Latitude C840 (A2 BIOS)

Original DSDT:

Patched DSDT:

Dell Inspirion 700m (A01 Bios)

Dell Inspiron 2500 (A13 BIOS)

Dell Inspiron 8600 (A03 BIOS)

Dell Inspiron 8600 (A08 BIOS) with NVidia graphics

Dell Inspiron 8600 (A10 BIOS) with ATI graphics

Dell Inspiron 8600 (A02, A04 BIOS)

Dell Inspiron 8200 (A8 BIOS)

Update: with kernel 2.4.22, swsusp and laptop-options patch, batteries now work. processor throttling and performance work.

Dell Inspiron 8200 (A10 BIOS)

Dell Inspiron 8100 (A15 BIOS)

ACPI battery polling via /info is taking a lot of CPU, avoid such tools. gkrellm is fine.

Dell Inspiron 4100

ECS A530

Gateway 450XL

HP Omnibook 500

HP ZE 5170

HP/Compaq nx7010

HP/Compaq nw8000

HP Pavilion dv1000

FUJITSU/SIEMENS AMILO A

IBM Thinkpad 570 (with Suse 8.1)

Unfortunately the experience is negative. Boot messages seem to indicate that ACPI is being initialised fine but power management support is always reported as unavailable in the KDE control panels. Even after setting acpi=force in the boot settings (just to make sure) the situation persists.

Addendum: You need to upgrade the 570 BIOS to support ACPI. Instructions are available on IBM's web site, search for "thinkpad 570 BIOS update". (Disclaimer: I did the BIOS update from windoze. I have this working with FreeBSD 4.8-stable and KDE 3.x but have not tried a Linux distro. Should not matter.)

IBM Thinkpad A31p

Battery not reporting the charging state SUCKS. Software-Suspend seems to work fine; APM suspend did not.

IBM Thinkpad R30

IBM Thinkpad R32

IBM Thinkpad R40

IBM Thinkpad R50e

IBM Thinkpad T23

IBM Thinkpad T22

Intel SRMK2 Internet Server

System: Dual 1 GHz PIII, 1GB Ram, 2 x 18GB SCSI

Intel SRMk@ Internet Server

System: Dual 1 Ghz PIII, 1GB Ram, 1x 18GB SCSI (U160)

Super Micro Super Server 6013P-i

System: Dual 2.4 GHz 533FSB P4 Xeon, 2GB Ram, 2 x 120GB WD IDE HD

Toshiba Satellite 1110

After installing a Kernel with ACPI Patch, ACPI seem to Work, except for the battery support.

Update: After a BIOS Update the Battery works, but the AC Adapter does not.

Update: On SuSE 8.2 all works fine. AC and Battery are supported.

Toshiba Libretto 110ct (BIOS 8.10)

Thermal Zone shows valid value at initialization, but won't poll then - however, I don't even know if there actually is one buildin ;)

Update: 2.6.11 ok

Toshiba Satellite 2410

Panasonic Let's note PRO CF-R1P

This uses ULV M-Pentium III and 440MX chipset.

Panasonic Let's note PRO CF-R1P(Same as above)

Toshiba Satellite 3000-514

Compaq Presario 1508AP

Compaq Presario 1700T (17XL4xx)

Uniwill N340S8 (Seems to be also Gericom Webboy N340S8)

Sony Vaio VX88

Sony Vaio PCG-GRX416G

Sony Vaio PCG-F430

Sony Vaio PCG-FRV35

Mainboards

ASUS A7N8X Deluxe Ver2.0 BIOS 1007 Final

Microzovd D845EBT

Microzovd D845EBT

Asus P3B/F

MSI K7T266Pro

MSI KT6Delta-FISR

Elitegroup ECS K7S5A

Last edited on Saturday 17 June 2006 8:30:38.

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