From owner-freebsd-current Fri Aug 31 17: 5:14 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from smtp010.mail.yahoo.com (smtp010.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.173.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5993737B40D for ; Fri, 31 Aug 2001 17:05:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mkc-65-31-219-45.kc.rr.com (HELO yahoo.com) (65.31.219.45) by smtp.mail.vip.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; 1 Sep 2001 00:05:09 -0000 X-Apparently-From: Message-ID: <3B902634.6030903@yahoo.com> Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 19:05:08 -0500 From: Jim Bryant Reply-To: kc5vdj@yahoo.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i386; en-US; rv:0.9.2) Gecko/20010726 Netscape6/6.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mike Smith Cc: Andy Farkas , Bruce Evans , Robert Watson , Garrett Wollman , current@FreeBSD.ORG, msmith@mass.dis.org Subject: Re: HEADS UP: ACPI CHANGES AFFECTING MOST -CURRENT USERS References: <200108312205.f7VM5Nw03739@mass.dis.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I would have waited for the re-run of hexdump to finish, but checking right after I sent the last message produced: DING! wahoo(102): hexdump -C /dev/mem | grep "RSD PTR" 000716d0 67 72 65 70 20 22 52 53 44 20 50 54 52 22 27 00 |grep "RSD PTR"'.| 000719d0 67 72 65 70 20 22 52 53 44 20 50 54 52 22 27 00 |grep "RSD PTR"'.| 00369400 52 53 44 20 50 54 52 20 00 54 62 56 61 6c 69 64 |RSD PTR .TbValid| 0036ad00 44 53 44 54 00 52 53 44 20 50 54 52 20 00 52 53 |DSDT.RSD PTR .RS| You did say that what you are looking for would be left-aligned, could it be the bit at 00369400? Mike Smith wrote: >>My motherboard is a Tyan S1696-DLUA dual P2-333. I am using the latest known >> bios updates. ACPI is enabled, and APM disabled in >>the BIOS. This happens regardless if PnP is on or off in the BIOS. >> >>[dmesg | grep -i acpi] >> >>ACPI debug layer 0x0 debug level 0x0 >> tbxface-0170: *** Error: AcpiLoadTables: Could not get RSDP, AE_NO_ACPI_TAB >>LES >> tbxface-0222: *** Error: AcpiLoadTables: Could not load tables: AE_NO_ACPI_ >>TABLES >>ACPI: table load failed: AE_NO_ACPI_TABLES >> > > Your ACPI tables, assuming they exist, are somewhere we're not looking for > them yet. 8( > > Can you try: > > # hexdump /dev/mem | grep "RSD PTR" > > and if it finds anything (the string should be left-aligned on the line) > send me the line it outputs... (this will take a while). > > Thanks. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > > jim -- ET has one helluva sense of humor! He's always anal-probing right-wing schizos! -------------------------------------------- POWER TO THE PEOPLE! _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message