Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2003 10:45:21 -0400 From: "Matthew Emmerton" <matt@gsicomp.on.ca> To: "Scott Long" <scottl@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ACPI problems with HEAD and IBM ThinkPad T23 Message-ID: <00a001c32aa7$ecc47970$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> References: <006c01c32aa1$b67359a0$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> <3EDE01C9.5000000@freebsd.org>
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> Matthew Emmerton wrote: > > I cvsup'd from 5.0-R to HEAD and enabled ACPI to see if anything had changed > > in the past 6 months. > > Indeed, things have, and a few workarounds I had implemented before were no > > longer needed. > > > > However, I still got a host of errors from ACPI upon boot, and some hacks to > > device.hints were still neccessary to keep my laptop functional through a > > boot. > > > > Attached are my device.hints file and a copy of the dmesg. > > > > In particular, the things that bother me are: > > 1) All of the "Method execution failed" errors > > As was mentioned in another post, there are many problems and solutions > being discussed on the acpi lists. Posting your ASL to those lists > might help. What are the lists that I should post to? > > 2) The fact that I have to have a device.hints entry in order to see console > > message upon boot. (Without this, my system boots up silently and after > > about 30 seconds, displays the familiar login prompt.) > > This is The Way Things Work. Logial device attachments are no longer > compiled into the kernel in 5.x by default (see the entry in GENERIC > about this), so you need to define those attachments in the device.hints > file. Ah, ok. I walked right into this one. I disliked the idea of device.hints (and didn't really understand the overriding concept thereof) so I trashed it and made a "minimal" version. In my case, the minimal version requires entries for sc0 and fd0. -- Matt Emmerton
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