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From: Eduardo Viruena Silva <mrspock@esfm.ipn.mx>
To: "Billow T. LUO" <luotao@ust.hk>
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Subject: Re: The problem with ACPI and APM on HP omnibook 500
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On Tue, 29 Apr 2003, Billow T. LUO wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I just installed FreeBSD 5.0 release on my HP Omnibook 500. I have
> checked the specification of
> my laptop, the power system is ACPI 1.0b and APM 1.2. As the handbook of
> FreeBSD 5.0 said, FreeBSD support
> APM and ACPI now. However, they can't be used at the same time.
>
> When I boot the system, I can find these message: "acpi0: found on
> motherboard  [Embedded Control] ...". Firstly, I add "device apm" in my
> kernel. After I rebuild the kernel, and run the system I always get this
> error ACPI-0432 Error: handle for [Embedded Control] returned AE_ERROR
> ACPI-1287 Error: Method execution failed, AE_AML_NO_RETURN_VALUE
> ACPI-1287 Error: Method execution failed, AE_ERROR In addition, my
> system power profile always changed between economy and performance
> randomly.
>
> Then, I delete "device apm" and add " device acpi0" in my kernel. But I
> failed to rebuild the kernel.


try just:    device acpi
do not use "0"

>
> Lastly, I deleted "device apm" to rebuild the kernel successfully. But
> the ACPI error is still there.
>
> Thanks
>
> Bill
>
>
>
>
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