From owner-freebsd-current Fri Sep 7 14:33: 7 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mass.dis.org (mass.dis.org [216.240.45.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D80537B403 for ; Fri, 7 Sep 2001 14:33:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mass.dis.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.dis.org (8.11.6/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f87LdOo15629; Fri, 7 Sep 2001 14:39:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.dis.org) Message-Id: <200109072139.f87LdOo15629@mass.dis.org> To: tlambert2@mindspring.com Cc: Pete Carah , current@freebsd.org, msmith@mass.dis.org Subject: Re: ACPI problems In-Reply-To: Message from Terry Lambert of "Thu, 06 Sep 2001 23:23:57 PDT." <3B9867FD.E3E764FA@mindspring.com> Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2001 14:39:24 -0700 From: Mike Smith 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 > Since you posted this message to -current, I just assumed you > had upgraded to the latest code, and thus were using ACPI (this > is the same thing that ended up confusing Mike Smith, who also > made the mistake in correcting me to say that ACPI was being > loaded twice on your system). Actually, I said that this was a possible problem. > The general form of the problem is: > > 1) PnP BIOS tells FreeBSD about the devices > 2) The device.hints tells FreeBSD about the > devices This is the general form of a different problem. The hints DO NOT supply PNPxxxx identifiers. Got it yet? > A "quick hack", which was iscussed but not implemented at > the time I read the message about it, would be to disable > the ACPI timer It's a) implemented and b) documented in the acpi(4) manpage (and has been for some time). To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message