Bug 104047

Summary:	Support for Dell Inspiron 8500 including ACPI, Speedstep, Multimedia Keys, Hotswapping, Screen Resolution
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux Beta	Reporter:	Robert Brimhall <rbrimhll>
Component:	kernel	Assignee:	Dave Jones <davej>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	Brian Brock <bbrock>
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Version:	beta2	CC:	pfrields, riel
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Description Robert Brimhall 2003-09-09 13:33:57 UTC

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030701
Epiphany/0.9.3

Description of problem:
This is a popular model laptop and as such should be targeted for full support
asap. Of course this is not including the winmodem. But having to patch my dsdt
to get acpi working is a bummer.

See this link for an example of the trials necessary to get Linux running...
although once it's running it runs great!

http://ltswww.epfl.ch/~dsanta/resources/dell-i8500-linux

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Install Red Hat Linux (any)
2.Work on your Laptop after strugging to configure X due to the uncommon screen
resolution.
3.Watch your laptop overheat and battery power not hold up due to improper power
management
    

Additional info:

Comment 1 Dave Jones 2003-09-09 14:03:44 UTC

Have you tried the latest kernel from rawhide ?
It has updated ACPI, and the Speedstep-ich cpufreq module.

Comment 2 Robert Brimhall 2003-09-09 15:38:31 UTC

Yes, I think it is due to Dell's BIOS being Blacklisted... the DSDT needs to be
patched in order to get ACPI support that works... I'm just suggesting this be
included in any upcoming releases.

Comment 3 Dave Jones 2003-09-09 16:14:51 UTC

why is it being blacklisted ? If its because its pre-2000, you can override with
acpi=force.

Comment 4 Robert Brimhall 2003-09-09 16:46:40 UTC

Dell Inspiron 8500
Last Modified 	2003-07-09 14:46 by Adrian Dewhurst 	S4 Bios 	no
Original 	no 	SMP 	no
Bios Revision 	A03 	APIC Table 	no
Board Revision 		Boot Table 	no
DSDT Vendor 		S2 Latency 	0
DSDT Product 		S3 Latency 	0
DSDT Revision 	0 	Dutywidth 	0
Interpreter Fix 	Dell's code incorrectly assumes that all arguments are passed
by reference, when they are actually passed by value. There are two methods
affected by this, so they have been modified to explicitly pass references.

It has been removed from the blacklist apparently but the bios is buggy... a
patch is still needed to get it to work correctly...

Comment 5 Robert Brimhall 2003-09-09 23:04:22 UTC

http://acpi.sourceforge.net/dsdt/index.php

see this site

Comment 6 Dave Jones 2003-10-03 18:42:35 UTC

No updated BIOS available ?

Comment 7 Robert Brimhall 2003-10-09 02:19:28 UTC

Yeah, Kernel 2.4.22 seems to be running smoothly with default acpi and patched
cpufreq with an updated bios. Still no support for volume keys other than acme
(a good userland solution but only with GNOME and XFce4 with work)... also,
i8kutils required for fan control...

Comment 8 Robert Brimhall 2003-10-09 02:20:37 UTC

Kernel 2.4.22 vanilla sources... not red hat version but they should be the same
minus red hat's tweaks.