From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 4 07:45:58 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B34D37B401; Wed, 4 Jun 2003 07:45:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tomts12-srv.bellnexxia.net (tomts12.bellnexxia.net [209.226.175.56]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC82F43FAF; Wed, 4 Jun 2003 07:45:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from matt@gsicomp.on.ca) Received: from gabby.gsicomp.on.ca ([65.95.185.239]) by tomts12-srv.bellnexxia.netESMTP <20030604144554.JDNG14139.tomts12-srv.bellnexxia.net@gabby.gsicomp.on.ca>; Wed, 4 Jun 2003 10:45:54 -0400 Received: from hermes (hermes.gsicomp.on.ca [192.168.0.18]) by gabby.gsicomp.on.ca (8.12.6/8.12.6) with SMTP id h54Ef1mK045844; Wed, 4 Jun 2003 10:41:02 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from matt@gsicomp.on.ca) Message-ID: <00a001c32aa7$ecc47970$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> From: "Matthew Emmerton" To: "Scott Long" References: <006c01c32aa1$b67359a0$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> <3EDE01C9.5000000@freebsd.org> Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2003 10:45:21 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ACPI problems with HEAD and IBM ThinkPad T23 X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2003 14:45:58 -0000 > 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