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From: Ian Smith <smithi@nimnet.asn.au>
To: Norberto Meijome <freebsd@meijome.net>
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Subject: Re: HDA binary blob conflicts with 6.2-STABLE acpi / touchpahd?
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Beto, probably a side issue, but:

On Thu, 7 Jun 2007, Norberto Meijome wrote:
 > Symptoms:
 > 1) Setting 
 > dev.acpi_ibm.0.events=1
 > will fail with (from dmesg -a )
 > ----
 > dev.acpi_ibm.0.events: 
 > 0
 > 
 > sysctl: 
 > dev.acpi_ibm.0.events
 > : 
 > Input/output error
 > ---
 > 
 > Therefore none of the acpi events are passed onto devd (this is how I came about the problem)
 > 
 > 2) psm0 is not detected. It normally is :
 > 
 > psm0: <PS/2 Mouse> irq 12 on atkbdc0
 > psm0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
 > psm0: model Generic PS/2 mouse, device ID 0
 > 
 > when the binary blobs are loaded, all those lines are completelly
 > missing from dmesg. /dev/psm0 is not created. I could only get it to
 > work if I forced the irq to "1" (the irq of the keyboard) in
 > device.hints. 
 >
 > doing a diff between dmesg -a of both kernels (with original snd
 > modules and with the special ones) shows
 >
 > -----
 > --- ./dmesg-a_allgood.txt       Thu Jun  7 23:01:30 2007
 > +++ ./dmesg-a.txt       Thu Jun  7 22:22:22 2007
[..]
 > -Timecounter "ACPI-safe" frequency 3579545 Hz quality 1000
 > +Timecounter "ACPI-fast" frequency 3579545 Hz quality 1000

Wondering how/why loading the 'blobs' changed this from -safe to -fast?

Cheers, Ian