Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2004 09:12:27 -0500 From: Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen@math.missouri.edu> To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?S=F8ren_Schmidt?= <sos@DeepCore.dk> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ACPI on Tyan Thunder K7 Message-ID: <4156CE4B.3070007@math.missouri.edu> In-Reply-To: <4156BA35.8010507@DeepCore.dk> References: <41536FD5.20204@math.missouri.edu> <20040926025935.GC2530@dragon.nuxi.com> <41563A3C.5080404@math.missouri.edu> <4156BA35.8010507@DeepCore.dk>
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Søren Schmidt wrote: > Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: > >> David O'Brien wrote: >> >>> On Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 07:52:37PM -0500, Stephen Montgomery-Smith >>> wrote: >>> >>>> I have a Tyan Thunder K7 S2462 motherboard running its latest BIOS >>>> (version 2.14). ACPI simply does not work at all. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> Define "does not work at all". >>> >> >> Well as you can see from the ACPI error messages in dmesg (which is >> included in my previous email) a lot of stuff isn't working. >> >> But more than that, if I do "shutdown -p now" the computer does halt, >> and then it switches off, but in a strange way - the fans are still >> going, all the lights are on, but the video card stops working, and >> the on/off button does nothing, even if I hold it down for several >> seconds. I have to press the reset button for it to start again. > > > This is a problem on several machines not just yours, in fact from my > experience its a problem for most machines. > > ACPI has been in a sorrowly sad shape since mid august or there abouts. > I think the releng team is aware of it and trying to decide what todo > about it for 5.3-RELEASE, backstepping might be the only way to go.. > I think that my problem is probably unrelated to your experiences. For me, ACPI has always not worked like this for FreeBSD-5.x, whereas my impression is that for everyone else it came about between Beta4 and Beta5.
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