From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 23 10:45:15 2003 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 6834337B405 for ; Mon, 23 Jun 2003 10:45:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from main.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.224.249]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F1C543F93 for ; Mon, 23 Jun 2003 10:45:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freebsd-current@m.gmane.org) Received: from list by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19UVMF-0004vN-00 for ; Mon, 23 Jun 2003 19:43:59 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from news by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19UVLK-0004qC-00 for ; Mon, 23 Jun 2003 19:43:02 +0200 From: Jesse Guardiani Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2003 13:43:14 -0400 Organization: WingNET Lines: 37 Message-ID: References: <20030623134240.20258.qmail@web11401.mail.yahoo.com> <20030623155230.514236dc.ltning@anduin.net> <20030623180620.18a5be17.ltning@anduin.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org User-Agent: KNode/0.7.2 X-Mail-Copies-To: never Sender: news Subject: Re: acpi patch for dell laptop? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: jesse@wingnet.net List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2003 17:45:15 -0000 Eirik Oeverby wrote: > On Mon, 23 Jun 2003 10:53:32 -0400 > Jesse Guardiani wrote: > >> > And with ACPI disabled, the machine refuses totally to >> > boot, it hangs at 'Mounting root from ...'. If I undock the machine, >> > I can boot with and without ACPI, with the latter option being the >> > only usable (stable) mode. >> >> Just out of curiosity, have you tried setting >> >> hw.pci.allow_unsupported_io_range=1 >> >> in your /boot/device.hints file? I've found that this option fixes >> many unbootable laptops - especially thinkpads. > > Hmm.. Yes, I think I have. Atleast it's in my device.hints file now - > however I don't know if I tried docking it and booting without ACPI > after I put that line in.. Perhaps I should try again, but my gut > feeling tells me it's not gonna make any difference. Atleast as long as > its undocked it had no effect on any of the other problems I'm > experiencing. Try again and let me know. > > /Eirik -- Jesse Guardiani, Systems Administrator WingNET Internet Services, P.O. Box 2605 // Cleveland, TN 37320-2605 423-559-LINK (v) 423-559-5145 (f) http://www.wingnet.net