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From: Wesley Morgan <morganw@chemikals.org>
To: Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG>
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Subject: Re: ACPI??? was - Re: -current TCP performance hosed? 
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FYI -- this has happened on my laptop (Toshiba Tecra 8000) ever since the
ACPI was first introduced (months and months ago)

On Fri, 14 Sep 2001, Mike Smith wrote:

> > It seems that, on Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 03:18:47PM -0700,
> > in message <200109142218.f8EMIl504199@mass.dis.org>, Mike Smith wrote:
> > > > Nope, no debug options, but I am getting loads of
> > > >
> > > > microuptime() went backwards (29804.3839847 -> 29804.925730)
> > >
> > > ALi chipset?  Try turning off the ACPI timer if you haven't already;
> > >
> > > set debug.acpi.disable="timer"
> > >
> > > at the loader prompt.  If this works, please let me know (with ACPI in the
> > > subject line so I don't miss it).
> >
> > Tried that, also tried "set hint.acpi.0.disable=1" - neither
> > had any effect.
>
> Can you explicitly disable the ACPI module?
>
> unset acpi_load
>
> at the loader prompt.  If it still happens with that, then something else is
> b0rked and I can stop panicking. 8)
>
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