From owner-freebsd-current Tue Oct 2 16:30:22 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 F1C9537B405 for ; Tue, 2 Oct 2001 16:30:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mass.dis.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.dis.org (8.11.6/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f92NeAt02839; Tue, 2 Oct 2001 16:40:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.dis.org) Message-Id: <200110022340.f92NeAt02839@mass.dis.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: kabaev@bellatlantic.net Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Weird PCI BIOS - long In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 02 Oct 2001 17:06:46 EDT." <20011002170646.A81966@kanpc.gte.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2001 16:40:10 -0700 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 > I am trying to install -CURRENT on ThinkPad 770ED with a limited success > so far. I noticed that when the kernel boots on this notebook, it > complains about PCI BIOS entry call point not being available. The > following is a boot -v output from my kernel file(see below for further > comments): You will probably need the ACPI module for this laptop to work. Grab the 'acpi.ko' file from another -current system and put it on the second floppy. It ought to load automatically; if not, "load acpi" at the loader prompt will DTRT. The confusing 1.0 vs. 0.00 message is probably just a glitch in Warner's code. -- ... 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