From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 16 03:30:49 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C1B016A4CE for ; Fri, 16 Jul 2004 03:30:49 +0000 (GMT) Received: from otter3.centtech.com (moat3.centtech.com [207.200.51.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 99E4B43D1D for ; Fri, 16 Jul 2004 03:30:48 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Received: from [192.168.42.25] ([192.168.42.25]) by otter3.centtech.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id i6G3UjE8077366; Thu, 15 Jul 2004 22:30:45 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Message-ID: <40F74BDA.2090408@centtech.com> Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 22:30:34 -0500 From: Eric Anderson User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7.1 (X11/20040707) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kevin Oberman References: <20040715222845.333795D08@ptavv.es.net> In-Reply-To: <20040715222845.333795D08@ptavv.es.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ACPI degrading.. ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 03:30:49 -0000 Kevin Oberman wrote: >>Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 11:08:22 -0500 >>From: Eric Anderson >>Sender: owner-freebsd-current@freebsd.org >> >>Ok - On May13th, I was the happiest FreeBSD user on the planet.. All the >>ACPI stuff worked (the acpi_video stuff worked for my laptop, I had >>several 'cx_supported' modes, etc..), but then I cvsup'ed on July 8th >>(around there), and the acpi_video was broken, and no more cx modes >>(besides c1). I backed up to 06/15 and the acpi_video magically came >>back, but still no cx modes.. >> >>Is there a configuration option I need to adjust now, or is it just >>broken? Is there anything I can do to help? >> >> > >The cx issue should be fixed. Nate put in a patch to fix it yesterday >or today. I have also lost acpi_video, but the patch to fix cx may fix >that, as well. I've been hesitant to update my laptop due to the native >preemption triggered problems that forced me to roll several bits of the >kernel back to 7/2. If I get just a little time, I'll cvsup and build a >new system tomorrow and see how t works (or doesn't). > > Ahh, ok.. great.. Thanks Nate! I'm also waiting for the preemption stuff to settle down.. killing my laptop 10 times in one day isn't my idea of fun.. :) Although, it only ever happened when Firefox was running.. Thanks for the info! Eric -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Sr. Systems Administrator Centaur Technology Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish. ------------------------------------------------------------------