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Date:      Mon, 12 Jul 2004 23:13:30 +0200
From:      "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
To:        Nate Lawson <nate@root.org>
Cc:        acpi@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: IBM Thinkpad T41p ACPI trouble. 
Message-ID:  <3232.1089666810@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 12 Jul 2004 13:51:45 -0000." <40F29771.1000404@root.org> 

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In message <40F29771.1000404@root.org>, Nate Lawson writes:
>Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>> In message <40F258AF.3020609@root.org>, Nate Lawson writes:
>> 
>>>Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>>>
>>>>I bought a Thinkpad T41p some weeks back, and to my delight ACPI
>>>>worked flawlessly.  I could adjust the backlight, turn the little
>>>>white "head light" led on and off, suspend etc.
>>>>
>>>>Touching the "Fn" key and any other key is pure death, but touching
>>>>the Fn key alone gives me a NUL-char.
>>>>
>>>>Tonight I went timetravelling with my kernel and get as far back as
>>>>first of may, but all along the same instant death if ACPI was provoked.
>>>
>>>As you cvs updated back in time, did you update your kernel or just the 
>>>acpi module?
>> 
>> kernel+acpi.
>> 
>> Anyway, it seems that if the CD/RW drive is in, the machine works
>> great, if not it is toast.  No clue to why yet.
>
>Are you sure the machine is hanging and not panicing?

Yes absolutely.

I've done this in single-user and the machine is just dead, it doesn't
react to wireless, ethernet, keyboard or anything else.

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Poul-Henning Kamp       | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20
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