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From: Ian Smith <smithi@nimnet.asn.au>
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Cc: freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org, Daniel Leal <dleal@webvolution.net>
Subject: Re: is acpi working well ?
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On Tue, 30 Dec 2008, Rui Paulo wrote:
 > On 30 Dec 2008, at 16:35, Daniel Leal wrote:
 > 
 > > I just asked because I was not sure.
 > > 
 > > But what about the other things?
 > 
 > The other things are problems with your ACPI vendor implementation or
 > FreeBSD's ACPI implementation problems.
 > 
 > > I already try to disable acpi in /boot/loader.conf with the line
 > > hint.acpi.0.disabled="1"
 > > but my laptop simply don't boot!! It crashes during freebsd boot with a few
 > > error that are to fast for my eyes.
 > 
 > Several modern laptops don't work with ACPI disabled.

Do any multi-core laptops work (with >1 core) with ACPI disabled?

cheers, Ian