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  1. Bug #48556
  2. Comment #37

Comment 37 for bug 48556

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Ben Collins (ben-collins) wrote : Re: [Bug 48556] Re: ACPI-0517: ****Error Method parse/execudion failed

On Fri, 2006-08-18 at 15:14 +0000, Chris Thompson wrote:
> Also worth noting is that the liveCD for Kubuntu 2006-06 (original
> release) doesn't seem to exhibit this problem. That is, I can boot up
> and use that version just fine.
>
> I tried decompiling my DSDT last night. 8 warnings, no errors. I tried
> fixing the warnings and booting up with a replacement DSDT but got the
> same problem. I may well have not fixed the warnings or deployed my
> DSDT file properly. Additionally, seven of the warnings were concerning
> ignored return values on mutex acquires. It wasn't clear to me how to
> fix that so I just told it to wait indefinitely.

If your DSDT was used, you would see something like this in dmesg:

ACPI: Looking for DSDT in initramfs... found /DSDT.aml ... successfully read 14592 bytes from /DSDT.aml
ACPI: Using customized DSDT
ACPI (tbget-0282): Table [DSDT] replaced by host OS [20060127]