From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 19 15:03:20 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2565016A4DD for ; Wed, 19 Jul 2006 15:03:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhb@freebsd.org) Received: from server.baldwin.cx (66-23-211-162.clients.speedfactory.net [66.23.211.162]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0317C43D6A for ; Wed, 19 Jul 2006 15:03:18 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jhb@freebsd.org) Received: from localhost.corp.yahoo.com (john@localhost [127.0.0.1]) (authenticated bits=0) by server.baldwin.cx (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k6JF3GTq062894; Wed, 19 Jul 2006 11:03:16 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jhb@freebsd.org) From: John Baldwin To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2006 10:58:22 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 References: <20060716141100.ee18d21a.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> <200607181504.51638.jhb@freebsd.org> <20060718234149.bd6c1d11.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> In-Reply-To: <20060718234149.bd6c1d11.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200607191058.23092.jhb@freebsd.org> X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH authentication, not delayed by milter-greylist-2.0.2 (server.baldwin.cx [127.0.0.1]); Wed, 19 Jul 2006 11:03:16 -0400 (EDT) X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.87.1/1609/Wed Jul 19 08:13:27 2006 on server.baldwin.cx X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.4 required=4.2 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.1.0 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.0 (2005-09-13) on server.baldwin.cx Cc: Subject: Re: Acer Aspire AS5672 laptop - acpi problems X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2006 15:03:20 -0000 On Tuesday 18 July 2006 17:41, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote: > On Tue, 18 Jul 2006 15:04:51 -0400 > John Baldwin wrote: > > > Cool. This means your bios has a buggy MP Table. You maybe can give > > enough details to Acer that they would be able to fix it in an > > updated BIOS. > > I would *love* to do that. Does anyone have a contact person or a > working procedure for submitting info to Acer? My current experience > with (most) commercial vendors is that standard support channels > (email, web forms) just works as a black hole - you put something in, > and never hear about it again. Note: i haven't any previous experience > with Acer, so I do not know if they are in the "black hole" category. No ideas on this one. > > Ah, you wouldn't force the IRQ for the both disabled case. My e-mail > > was confusing in that part it turns out. > > Ok. I just tried it with both acpi and apic disabled, but then bge0 > doesn't work again. The only difference I spotted in the dmesg was an > interrupt storm on irq 10, but I didn't look very closely. New dmesg > attached. Well, this is likely due to more bugs in your BIOS. I would just go with ACPI disabled and APIC with the override for now. :) -- John Baldwin