From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 23 05:56:08 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3229416A4CE for ; Thu, 23 Dec 2004 05:56:08 +0000 (GMT) Received: from natnoddy.rzone.de (natnoddy.rzone.de [81.169.145.166]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 84ECC43D5C for ; Thu, 23 Dec 2004 05:56:07 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kaasboer@laverenz.de) Received: from athena.laverenz.de (pD9550E50.dip.t-dialin.net [217.85.14.80]) by post.webmailer.de (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id iBN5u4X9015034 for ; Thu, 23 Dec 2004 06:56:05 +0100 (MET) Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by athena.laverenz.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 41A3DE385BE7 for ; Thu, 23 Dec 2004 06:56:06 +0100 (CET) Received: from athena.laverenz.de ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (athena [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 26023-04 for ; Thu, 23 Dec 2004 06:56:05 +0100 (CET) Received: from brianna.laverenz.de (wrt54g.laverenz.de [192.168.100.44]) by athena.laverenz.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id F1E8EE023E23 for ; Thu, 23 Dec 2004 06:56:04 +0100 (CET) Received: by brianna.laverenz.de (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 314F4D4C13; Thu, 23 Dec 2004 06:56:00 +0100 (CET) Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2004 06:56:00 +0100 From: Uwe Laverenz To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20041223055516.GF795@brianna.laverenz.de> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <41C81621.50906@nbritton.org> <20041221144829.GA5859@laverenz.de> <41C9D389.9030602@nbritton.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <41C9D389.9030602@nbritton.org> Organization: private site Sender: uwe@laverenz.de User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p10 (Debian) at laverenz.de Subject: Re: Armada 17xx, ACPI thermal management broken. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2004 05:56:08 -0000 On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 02:05:29PM -0600, Nikolas Britton wrote: > How?, I added it to my kernel "device apm", "device pmtimer", and > "device amp_saver" and rebuilt it and in rc.conf I added > apm_enable="YES", apmd_enable="YES" and I greped though I think you would also have to disable ACPI. This could be done by adding hint.acpi.0.disabled="1" to /boot/device.hints. > I want ACPI!, APM is a last ditch hack to me, the name says it all > "Advanced Configuration and Power Interface" there is a reason they > switched to it. The 440BX chipset has full support for ACPI and > therefore should work with FreeBSD and is a critical problem, what do > you think might happen if you disable all your fans on your computer???. As I said: I might be wrong, but I think the Armada simply is too old for a correct implementation of ACPI, it was build for APM. So, the problem is not FreeBSD, it's the Armada. > Please note that I'm not trying to diss FreeBSD in anyway for it being > broken as I understand the issues with the DSDT, AML, and ASL stuff, I > just want it to work. Other system would also show this problem, the fan never starts to work under Linux (tested FC3 a few weeks ago). I really don't know if it's possible to get ACPI+FreeBSD 5.x+Armada 1750 to work, I can only say that it worked perfectly with FreeBSD 4.x and APM. And I can say that FreeBSD+ACPI works great on newer notebooks (evo N160, IBM Thinkpad...). cu, Uwe