Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2005 14:26:27 -0800 From: "Moore, Robert" <robert.moore@intel.com> To: "John Baldwin" <jhb@freebsd.org>, "David Kelly" <dkelly@hiwaay.net> Cc: freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Worked in RELENG_5, fails in RELENG_6 Message-ID: <971FCB6690CD0E4898387DBF7552B90E03907B15@orsmsx403.amr.corp.intel.com>
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FACS does not replace FADT. FACS is an ACPI 1.0 table as well. > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd- > acpi@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of John Baldwin > Sent: Tuesday, November 29, 2005 1:47 PM > To: David Kelly > Cc: freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: Worked in RELENG_5, fails in RELENG_6 >=20 > On Tuesday 29 November 2005 04:19 pm, David Kelly wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 02:52:34PM -0500, John Baldwin wrote: > > > On Monday 28 November 2005 10:46 pm, David Kelly wrote: > > > > Downloaded and FLASHed BIOS from A06 to Dell's latest, A09 this > > > > evening. No improvement. Also built and installed a new kernel from > > > > cvsup this afternoon. No improvement. > > > > > > But 5.4 works fine with ACPI enabled? This is the machine that even > > > acpidump chokes on, yes? Does acpidump work ok on 5.4? > > > > "acpidump -t -d" stops after 31 lines and says, "acpidump: FACS is > > corrupt" on stderr. See > > http://home.hiwaay.net/~dkelly/opus-acpidump-d-t.txt > > > > "acpidump -d" runs without error and emits 2754 lines. See > > http://home.hiwaay.net/~dkelly/opus-acpidump-d.txt > > > > ACPI worked with 5.4 so I never had a reason to acpidump then. Could I > > boot a 5.4 CDROM to test ACPI? Without much effort have put my hands on > > a "5.3-RELEASE Live Filesystem" CDROM that should make a good test. > > > > There was an issue briefly with ACPI in 5.0 or 5.1, very likely in a > > prerelease. > > > > Absolultely certain ACPI worked prior to 6.0 because among other things > > ACPI installed a power button handler which performed a clean shutdown > > (same as ctl-alt-del) rather than brute force yank-the-plug crash. >=20 > Ok. BTW, FACS is an ACPI 2.0 table that replaces the FADT (I think), so > if > your BIOS has an option to only do ACPI 1.0, you can try that to see if it > fixes the problem. >=20 > -- > John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ > "Power Users Use the Power to Serve" =3D http://www.FreeBSD.org > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-acpi > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-acpi-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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