From owner-freebsd-current Wed Nov 21 20:46:41 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mass.dis.org (mass.dis.org [216.240.45.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6505E37B405 for ; Wed, 21 Nov 2001 20:46:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from mass.dis.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.dis.org (8.11.6/8.11.3) with ESMTP id fAM4nTh07087; Wed, 21 Nov 2001 20:49:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.dis.org) Message-Id: <200111220449.fAM4nTh07087@mass.dis.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Emiel Kollof Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ACPI hangs on boot In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 22 Nov 2001 04:49:09 +0100." <20011122044909.A14835@laptop.hackerheaven.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2001 20:49:29 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > The build and all goes well, but after a reboot. the kernel boots and > just hangs on the acpi_cpu and refuses to go further. > > deleting the acpi.ko in /boot/kernel solves the problem for me. Is there > any way to _disable_ acpi all together? I tried doing it from the boot > menu (using unload and disable-module), rummaging through the /boot > forth scripts also yielded no success, but it still gets loaded. > Eventually just deleting the module made my box boot on. Answers to this question can be found (with minimal effort) in the list archives. > My CURRENT machine is a Compaq Presario 17XL380 laptop. Is the ACPI on that > machine broken or misfeatured? Any info I can provide to help? It's possible that it is; please post what details you have to the ACPI working list at acpi-jp@jp.freebsd.org, and we'll see what can be done to get you going. -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] V I C T O R Y N O T V E N G E A N C E To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message