Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2004 14:46:45 +0200 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?S=F8ren_Schmidt?= <sos@DeepCore.dk> To: Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen@math.missouri.edu> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ACPI on Tyan Thunder K7 Message-ID: <4156BA35.8010507@DeepCore.dk> In-Reply-To: <41563A3C.5080404@math.missouri.edu> References: <41536FD5.20204@math.missouri.edu> <20040926025935.GC2530@dragon.nuxi.com> <41563A3C.5080404@math.missouri.edu>
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Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: > David O'Brien wrote: > >> On Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 07:52:37PM -0500, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: >> >>> I have a Tyan Thunder K7 S2462 motherboard running its latest BIOS >>> (version 2.14). ACPI simply does not work at all. >> >> >> >> Define "does not work at all". >> > > Well as you can see from the ACPI error messages in dmesg (which is > included in my previous email) a lot of stuff isn't working. > > But more than that, if I do "shutdown -p now" the computer does halt, > and then it switches off, but in a strange way - the fans are still > going, all the lights are on, but the video card stops working, and the > on/off button does nothing, even if I hold it down for several seconds. > I have to press the reset button for it to start again. This is a problem on several machines not just yours, in fact from my experience its a problem for most machines. ACPI has been in a sorrowly sad shape since mid august or there abouts. I think the releng team is aware of it and trying to decide what todo about it for 5.3-RELEASE, backstepping might be the only way to go.. -Søren
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