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Date:      Thu, 2 Aug 2007 16:08:35 -0400
From:      John Nielsen <lists@jnielsen.net>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Cc:        Subhro <subhro.kar@gmail.com>
Subject:   Re: CRT value Absurd
Message-ID:  <200708021608.35285.lists@jnielsen.net>
In-Reply-To: <b2807d040708021113h47f0f382nb3a1da7ac4c7d568@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <b2807d040708021113h47f0f382nb3a1da7ac4c7d568@mail.gmail.com>

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On Thursday 02 August 2007 02:13:46 pm Subhro wrote:
> Hello Folks,
>
> Recently I got a HP nc6400 notebook for myself and decided to install
> FreeBSD on this. My system boots up fine but I am repeatedly getting
> Errors from ACPI. I am repeatedly getting
>
> acpi_tz0: _CRT value is absurd, ignored (256C)
>
> How can I solve this problem?

One of my desktops started doing this after a -STABLE update a few weeks ago. 

I worked around it by setting

	hw.acpi.thermal.polling_rate=0

in /etc/sysctl.conf. For a one-time change obviously you can just run

# sysctl hw.acpi.thermal.polling_rate=0


JN



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