Loading an alternate DSDT table (ACPI)
807559Mar 5 2007 — edited Mar 6 2007Hi,
with my Toshiba P105 laptop I had the common issue that a broken
ACPI table was the cause for problems with the sound device.
Disassembling the code with Intel's iasl compiler, fixing the bugs
in the source code and recompiling the DSDT worked fine.
After copying in the DSDT table to /boot/acpi/tables as
DSDT_toshiba_p105.dat according to instructions like this..
http://blogs.sun.com/chewmyblog/date/20050614
..it seems that Solaris 10 HW6/11 just ignores the tables as there
is nothing about an attempt or failure in the logs or dmesg. The table
itself should be fine as inserting it to the Linux installation of this
machine via initrd worked great and the sound problem there is solved.
It seems that there is not much information about DSDT and Solaris.
The only thing I found that there should be at least a log record
about attempting to read in the table.
Thanks for some hints,
Oliver