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Subject: [acpi-jp 1956] Re: recommended VAIO for ACPI hacking (Re: cvs commit: www/en/releases/5.0R
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Hi,

I have an VAIO FX601, and ACPI never worked.

I get a lot of errors related to ACPI during boot and acpidump also 
prints errors.

After suspending the laptop, the system never wakes-up, display still 
stays black.

So this ACPI BIOS seems to be completely buggy,

bye,

Mitsuru IWASAKI schrieb:
> [moved to current@ and acpi-jp@jp]
> 
> Hi,
> 
> 
>>According to Mitsuru IWASAKI:
>>
>>>If your ACPI BIOS check OS type (try; acpidump | grep _OS_), you might
>>>need to do something.  The black list feature (for non-Windows) might be
>>>good idea for avoiding confusion.
>>
>>Will try tonite when I'll have my laptop.
> 
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> 
>>>Also, development resources are limited.  For example, none of ACPI
>>>developers has VAIO.
>>
>>Well, I don't know enough to be a developper but I do have a VAIO (Z600TEK)
>>and can test things. Just ask.
> 
> 
> BTW, I'm planning to buy VAIO (maybe used one) to improve ACPI support.
> Any recommendations?
> # Recommendation means some sort of `Sigh!  My VAIO doesn't work with
> # ACPI at all!!' :-)
> 
> Thanks
> 
> 
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