From owner-freebsd-bugbusters@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 26 22:49:35 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-bugbusters@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B39216A418 for ; Sat, 26 Jan 2008 22:49:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nate@root.org) Received: from root.org (root.org [67.118.192.226]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4AB9013C465 for ; Sat, 26 Jan 2008 22:49:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nate@root.org) Received: (qmail 23095 invoked from network); 26 Jan 2008 22:49:36 -0000 Received: from adsl-71-141-123-117.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net (HELO ?192.168.1.77?) (nate-mail@71.141.123.117) by root.org with ESMTPA; 26 Jan 2008 22:49:36 -0000 Message-ID: <479BB8F8.1060103@root.org> Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2008 14:49:28 -0800 From: Nate Lawson User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (Windows/20071031) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mark Linimon References: <20080125183914.GC21911@soaustin.net> <479A2F84.5060707@root.org> <20080125192729.GA3521@soaustin.net> <479A3A67.5070401@root.org> <20080125230209.GD15402@soaustin.net> In-Reply-To: <20080125230209.GD15402@soaustin.net> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-bugbusters@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: upcoming bugathon this weekend X-BeenThere: freebsd-bugbusters@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Coordination of the Problem Report handling effort." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2008 22:49:35 -0000 Mark Linimon wrote: > On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 11:37:11AM -0800, Nate Lawson wrote: >> Ok by me. The only problem I have is that a lot of people blame acpi >> when it's really a driver problem. The best acid test is to boot with >> acpi disabled and show the feature works whereas with it enabled, it fails. > > It would be great if you could write up some notes on "how to debug if > you think you are having an acpi problem". If you can do that, I'll write > them up and either put them in the wiki, or the Developer's Handbook, as > you think appropriate. > > I'm sure you'd rather have more than one person able to walk people > through debugging these problems :-) Already happened, improvements welcome: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/acpi-debug.html -- Nate