From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 20 12:12:05 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ADE3916A419 for ; Sun, 20 Jan 2008 12:12:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from a.j.werven@student.utwente.nl) Received: from filter2-tmobile.zx.nl (filter2-tmobile.zx.nl [194.187.76.139]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6EC2F13C465 for ; Sun, 20 Jan 2008 12:12:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from a.j.werven@student.utwente.nl) Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by filter2-tmobile.zx.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E7261C72F1; Sun, 20 Jan 2008 12:38:43 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at zx.nl Received: from filter2-tmobile.zx.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (filter2.zx.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10127) with ESMTP id thIHT8-whhbM; Sun, 20 Jan 2008 12:38:36 +0100 (CET) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (unknown [91.141.136.99]) by filter2-tmobile.zx.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP; Sun, 20 Jan 2008 12:38:35 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <479332DE.4030204@student.utwente.nl> Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2008 11:39:10 +0000 From: "Alphons \"Fonz\" van Werven" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (Windows/20071031) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: ivan dimitrov References: <317771.35090.qm@web56814.mail.re3.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <317771.35090.qm@web56814.mail.re3.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: error messages X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2008 12:12:05 -0000 ivan dimitrov wrote: > ACPI-0501: *** Error: Handler for [EmbeddedControl] returned AE_NO_HARDWARE_RESPONSE [snip] > my question is - what they means and how to stop them ? I'm no expert on laptops, but it seems to me that you have either misconfigured ACPI or a laptop that doesn't support ACPI in the first place. My suggestion is that you turn off ACPI, at least until somebody who knows more about laptops than I do comes along to point out exactly what's wrong. In the meantime, perhaps APM will work properly. So you might want to give that a try. Hth, Fonz -- VISTA - Viruses Intruders Spyware Trojans Adware