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To: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
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Subject: Re: how to make acpi go away. 
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From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org>
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> 
>  I only found this out today when my Dell inspiron7500
> refused to boot past the ACPI message..
>  Surprised me a bit as Mike has one of these.

There's a well-documented and necessary hack to work on these
machines; the actual nature of the problem still escapes me (debugging
it is very time-consuming).

debug.acpi.avoid="_SB_.PCI0.PX40.SIO_"

in /boot/device.hints.


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