From owner-freebsd-acpi@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Nov 4 00:56:42 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: acpi@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: freebsd-acpi@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E4F7F16A41F; Fri, 4 Nov 2005 00:56:42 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nate@root.org) Received: from www.cryptography.com (li-22.members.linode.com [64.5.53.22]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 91DE943D45; Fri, 4 Nov 2005 00:56:38 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nate@root.org) Received: from [10.0.0.33] (adsl-67-119-74-222.dsl.sntc01.pacbell.net [67.119.74.222]) by www.cryptography.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id jA40uaxq009797 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Thu, 3 Nov 2005 16:56:37 -0800 Message-ID: <436AB199.7020809@root.org> Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2005 16:55:53 -0800 From: Nate Lawson User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (Windows/20050716) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" References: <20051104003654.GO2406@wantadilla.lemis.com> <1131064840.4036.13.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <20051104005208.GQ2406@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <20051104005208.GQ2406@wantadilla.lemis.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: acpi@FreeBSD.org Subject: acpi timer issue (was: Re: 6.0 show-stopper?) X-BeenThere: freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: ACPI and power management development List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 04 Nov 2005 00:56:43 -0000 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