Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2005 16:55:53 -0800 From: Nate Lawson <nate@root.org> To: "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" <grog@FreeBSD.org> Cc: acpi@FreeBSD.org Subject: acpi timer issue (was: Re: 6.0 show-stopper?) Message-ID: <436AB199.7020809@root.org> In-Reply-To: <20051104005208.GQ2406@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20051104003654.GO2406@wantadilla.lemis.com> <1131064840.4036.13.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <20051104005208.GQ2406@wantadilla.lemis.com>
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Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > On Thursday, 3 November 2005 at 19:40:40 -0500, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > >>On Fri, 2005-11-04 at 11:06 +1030, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >> >>>I've spent the week tracing down a strange problem installing on a >>>brand new Dell Inspiron 6000. It runs just fine with 5.3-RELEASE and >>>5.4, and also with Linux 2.6, but with 6.0 and 7-CURRENT it has >>>serious timekeeping problems. >>> >>>After a lot of experimentation, this seems to be related to ACPI. >>>Disabling ACPI "fixes" the problem (I think). But it doesn't happen >>>under 5.3 or 5.4, so it should be considered a regression. > >>I have an Inspiron 6000 running recent RELENG_6, and I'm not seeing >>any problems. I've had it for a while, and nothing has ever >>appeared to be wrong on this laptop. > > Interesting. Maybe it's related to the BIOS. Did you do anything out > of the ordinary to get it to work? Do you have an on-board wireless > card? Mine doesn't get recognized, though it works fine with Linux. > > I'm attaching the dmesg. Need dmesg with acpi enabled. Moving to acpi@, a more appropriate forum. -- Nate
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