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Subject: Re: ACPI Eror
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Michael Alestock <michaela@maa-net.net> writes:

> I just installed FreeBSD-5.4-Release on my Toshiba Satellite A105 laptop
> and keep getting this rather annoying error every so often....
> 
> ACPI-0370:  *** Error: No installed handler for fixed event [00000004]
> 
> I Googled around and seems as though the best remedy is to just upgrade
> to FreeBSD-6.0.
> 
> Is there any way around this (error) or should I just go ahead and
> upgrade to 6.0 ??
> 
> Thanks for the help.

You could write a new event handler yourself, but if you want improved
ACPI support, it seems silly to do anything *but* upgrade to 6.1.