From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 2 04:52:26 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 82088106566B for ; Mon, 2 Mar 2009 04:52:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from michael.alestock@yahoo.com) Received: from web56307.mail.re3.yahoo.com (web56307.mail.re3.yahoo.com [216.252.110.231]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2E6488FC21 for ; Mon, 2 Mar 2009 04:52:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from michael.alestock@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 23690 invoked by uid 60001); 2 Mar 2009 04:25:44 -0000 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=yahoo.com; s=s1024; t=1235967944; bh=V2zxdhNKHh9DJ03eTaq1Hi6oNxDJb0STg8x1sqXrZxY=; h=Message-ID:X-YMail-OSG:Received:X-Mailer:Date:From:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=O3cQElMOzEhX8uHF4a4is1/Pb4uZKtprigmiTSK7veyVVfA9WFM2QKgBNz3VMgi+t9RpXQ2IHizmhWBz95k6NXtpSypjMuZzxEBfj2F6qjN8I/2Ynm1I3QKUlMdpPaCcdYEGG6eb/YInOvPMPRzNwoExoV+08MJc1YIWIEBVang= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=Message-ID:X-YMail-OSG:Received:X-Mailer:Date:From:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=JSgVyQHmM1oNC2r9XRg1+OkFyU2LZiN/YOm28pxr38TmEOI7tYG+wEW8GNA7Uq6WggybLNcVdfadtxSfTJQdSmPDuxvIhuA2GTb8roGlNf7IvquGc8Y5JfT+x2Hs1vFzrUBPMufDcEu9n/TdoudtrHUeIr/66WtH5A7b5p7VRMU=; Message-ID: <526674.23467.qm@web56307.mail.re3.yahoo.com> X-YMail-OSG: t.U20FoVM1ldAFHYj.2o_MWUgcy.BZjwnVvfRQ2ZZ9vEClbCJGU- Received: from [12.146.0.130] by web56307.mail.re3.yahoo.com via HTTP; Sun, 01 Mar 2009 20:25:44 PST X-Mailer: YahooMailWebService/0.7.289.1 Date: Sun, 1 Mar 2009 20:25:44 -0800 (PST) From: "\"Michael A. Alestock\"" To: questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Subject: ACPI issue on my Toshiba laptop X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2009 04:52:26 -0000 Hi all, As you're already aware, there've been known issues with ACPI running on some laptops. For instance, mine is a Toshiba Satellite A105-S2051. When I first installed FreeBSD v6.3 I would get the following error... *** ACPI-0370: Error - No installed handler for fixed event *** >From here, I wouldn't be able to use my built-in LAN or Atheros 5212 wireless because of constant WATCHDOG: DEVICE TIMEOUT error messages. However, I later found out that by disabling the ACPI by placing two lines in your /boot/device.hints or /boot/loader.conf files, hint.apic.0.disabled="1" hint.acpi.0.disabled="1" you would be able to use both the wireless and LAN without the ACPI running. This has been the case for me for a while, and everything was going great until lastnight.... I went to go do my monthly source update. While rebooting I couldn't get back into FreeBSD. I would get this dreadful message at the very beginning of the scrolling boot up messages.... ioapic0: Assuming intbase of 0 *panic: Bogus interrupt flags* >From here I only had two options, either shut down or reboot, but would get the same message no matter what. In other words, FreeBSD won't let me fully boot up unless I have ACPI "enabled" or select the boottime option to run with it enabled. Booting up would let me back into FreeBSD, but then I'd start getting the awful, "Watchdog: Device Timeout" messages, and my LAN and wireless connections would be useless. I'm assuming there was something added in the source update that altered the ACPI again?? Does anyone know how to get around this?? It's driving me nuts! FreeBSD is basically useless if I can't use any Internet connection. :( Thank You in advance.... -Frustrated FreeBSD user.