Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2003 17:34:14 +1000 (EST) From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: "Cagle, John (ISS-Houston)" <john.cagle@hp.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: RE: sio problem in -current (COM1) Message-ID: <20030403172912.A29833@gamplex.bde.org> In-Reply-To: <C50AB9511EE59B49B2A503CB7AE1ABD10440E47A@cceexc19.americas.cpqcorp.net>
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On Wed, 2 Apr 2003, Cagle, John (ISS-Houston) wrote: > Thanks! It was an ACPI-related problem. I disabled ACPI > (hint.acpi.0.disabled="1" in /boot/device.hints) and rebooted and now > both com ports show up properly as they did with FreeBSD 4.8. (These > are just standard com ports, btw.) We still don't know why acpi sometimes gets this wrong. > I didn't realize ACPI was involved in legacy com port detection. That's > weird. It seems to be used for most legacy ports. IIRC, it found all except 2 or 3 devices according to your boot messages, with the vga devices being an interesting exception (most vga devices are too new to even support pci). Brucehome | help
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