From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Sep 26 14:12:30 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 7375E16A4CE for ; Sun, 26 Sep 2004 14:12:30 +0000 (GMT) Received: from sccmmhc91.asp.att.net (sccmmhc91.asp.att.net [204.127.203.211]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C0F043D31 for ; Sun, 26 Sep 2004 14:12:30 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from stephen@math.missouri.edu) Received: from [10.0.0.3] (12-216-240-169.client.mchsi.com[12.216.240.169]) by sccmmhc91.asp.att.net (sccmmhc91) with ESMTP id <20040926141228m9100ipofqe>; Sun, 26 Sep 2004 14:12:29 +0000 Message-ID: <4156CE4B.3070007@math.missouri.edu> Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2004 09:12:27 -0500 From: Stephen Montgomery-Smith User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040922 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?S=F8ren_Schmidt?= References: <41536FD5.20204@math.missouri.edu> <20040926025935.GC2530@dragon.nuxi.com> <41563A3C.5080404@math.missouri.edu> <4156BA35.8010507@DeepCore.dk> In-Reply-To: <4156BA35.8010507@DeepCore.dk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ACPI on Tyan Thunder K7 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: Sun, 26 Sep 2004 14:12:30 -0000 Søren Schmidt wrote: > 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.. > I think that my problem is probably unrelated to your experiences. For me, ACPI has always not worked like this for FreeBSD-5.x, whereas my impression is that for everyone else it came about between Beta4 and Beta5.