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Subject: Re: 5.2.1 : general protection fault without ACPI
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On Wednesday 10 March 2004 11:57 pm, Nate Lawson wrote:
> You might want to try booting with device apic disabled.  Also, can you
> send me a link to your ASL?
>
>    acpidump -t -d > niraj.asl
>
> The ACPI debugging section of the handbook suggests this:
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/acpi-debug.html

It's not an ACPI problem.  5.x has grown a regression in its handling of 
BIOS32 calls somehow.  It breaks the PNP BIOS probe on the intel 8[46]5 
boards that I have available here.

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