Im getting on boot, whats going on? A14.
Many systems have incomplete or buggy ACPI support. Some laptops have well-known issues. Make sure you are running the latest BIOS for your machine. If your machine isn’t of a fairly recent vintage, it may not support ACPI at all. If you are willing to investigate further, please download the latest Linux “Debug” patch. This version has many diagnostic outputs, which will aid in debugging. Q15. What information should I provide to the list when reporting a problem? A15. The output from dmesg. Your system’s DSDT (the biggest ACPI table) is also usually of interest. You can capture the dsdt on a system which has successfully booted with ACPI by copying /proc/acpi/dsdt to a file. If your system will not load the ACPI driver, you may boot a non-ACPI kernel and use acpidmp, included in the PMTools package, to retrieve the DSDT. Please either attach it to your message, or indicate a location where it may be downloaded. Q16.
