From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 28 22:13:08 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D672016A4DE for ; Fri, 28 Jul 2006 22:13:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ntai@smartfruit.com) Received: from spunkymail-a11.dreamhost.com (sd-green-bigip-176.dreamhost.com [208.97.132.176]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A00FA43D45 for ; Fri, 28 Jul 2006 22:13:08 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ntai@smartfruit.com) Received: from [10.50.20.104] (gate.abinitio.com [65.170.40.132]) by spunkymail-a11.dreamhost.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 32785B6A5B for ; Fri, 28 Jul 2006 15:13:07 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <44CA8BC1.8030004@smartfruit.com> Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2006 18:12:17 -0400 From: Naoyuki Tai User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: My FreeBSD 6.1 installed machine is haunted... X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2006 22:13:08 -0000 Hello, I installed a i386 FreeBSD 6.1 to a brand new machine, CPU: Athlon 64 2GHz MB: BIOSTAR T-series TForce 6100-939 It installed fine, works fine for a while (15 - 20 minutes), then all of sudden, the machine goes down. It's not a freeze. It prints out something (which I cannot read) and turns itself off. Maybe it's trying to do sleep. The machine, then trys to start up. The fan spins, disk spins up, then stops again. Then, fans spins, disk spins, then stops again. It repeats the spin up and down a few times, and finally it stops. It is quite amusing, and looks like the machine is haunted. I reboot the machine. It runs for some time, and then does the same thing. It runs about 15minutes or so. Maybe longer, maybe shorter, but, it's long enough to do some operation. If I disable ACPI in the BIOS, it keeps running. If I enable ACPI in BIOS, but choose disable ACPI option for the boot, it keeps running. However, when I did acpiconf -s 1, it fails to sleep, citing that an USB is not willing to go sleep. I ended up giving up on 6.1, and reinstalled with 5.5. This works just fine. So, why does the machine act so oddly when I install 6.1? I don't have a strong reason to install 6.1, but, would be nice if I could use the keyboard multiplexing as I use USB KVM and would be very handy to have it. -- Naoyuki "Tai" Tai, ntai a t smartfruit d o t com