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From: Stephen Torri <s.torri@lancaster.ac.uk>
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Subject: RE: ACPI:system description tables not found.
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On Thu, 8 Mar 2001, Grover, Andrew wrote:

> download the pmtools package from
> http://developer.intel.com/technology/iapc/acpi/downloads.htm . (It's at the
> bottom.) The acpidmp utility is what you're interested in (you can ignore
> compile errors from the others.) Does this utility find tables, or not?
>
> Thanks -- Regards -- Andy

I got the utility and compiled it under 2.4.2-ac12. No problem wit that.

Acpidump reports:

acpidump: cannot find an RSDP (Is ACPI enabled?).

Yes ACPI is enabled in the system bios. Motherboard is P6DBU (Supermicro)
with Dual P3 @ 450MHz.

Stephen

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