From owner-freebsd-mobile Thu Feb 8 10:37:22 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mass.dis.org (mass.dis.org [216.240.45.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D732537B6A7 for ; Thu, 8 Feb 2001 10:37:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from mass.dis.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.dis.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f18Icd300943; Thu, 8 Feb 2001 10:38:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.dis.org) Message-Id: <200102081838.f18Icd300943@mass.dis.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Michael Robinson Cc: mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ACPI-CA 01-25-01 In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 08 Feb 2001 22:50:52 +0800." <200102081450.f18Eoqd00373@netrinsics.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2001 10:38:39 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > I pulled 5.0-CURRENT sources as of Jan 31, 12:00, picking up the bits you > committed earlier that day (plus amfldio.c from Feb 7). > > When I build the kernel with "device acpcica", it wedges my 5000e hard > (blank screen, dead power button, paperclip reboot) about one second into > the boot. Without acpica, everything is copacetic. > > Is this a known discrepency that top men are working on, or should I file a > PR? Filing a PR against -current is kinda pointless. It would be more useful to know where things actually die, which will probably involve having you boot with a serial console, and possibly do some ACPI debugging. Also, make sure you have the most recent BIOS for your system. I know that John Baldwin is running a 5000e with ACPI, modulo some limitations. > P.S. Should I be concerned that one of these days I'm going to toast my > BIOS with this ACPI stuff and have to ship my computer back to Dell? Not really, no. -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] V I C T O R Y N O T V E N G E A N C E To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message