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Date:      Fri, 22 Sep 2006 17:35:12 -0400
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
To:        freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org
Cc:        up@3.am
Subject:   Re: Bug in 6.1 acpi?
Message-ID:  <200609221735.13188.jhb@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.44.0609221411390.61791-100000@richard2.pil.net>
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.44.0609221411390.61791-100000@richard2.pil.net>

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On Friday 22 September 2006 14:12, up@3.am wrote:
> On Fri, 22 Sep 2006, Brooks Davis wrote:
> 
> > [Please don't cross post]
> >
> > On Fri, Sep 22, 2006 at 02:03:37PM -0400, up@3.am wrote:
> > >
> > > (Please respond directly, as I am not subscribed)
> > >
> > > I've asked about this error message before, but this has gotten serious.
> > > Not sure if it's related, but this server keeps spontaneously having 
what
> > > appear to be power events every 13-40 hours or so.  No errors or panic
> > > messages or core dumps.
> > >
> > > The system has dual power supplies and was rock stable running 4.X.  The
> > > problem only started occuring after upgrading to 6.1-STABLE.  Could it 
be
> > > related to this DMESG? :
> > >
> > > acpi0: <PTLTD   RSDT> on motherboard
> > > acpi0: Power Button (fixed)
> > > acpi: bad write to port 0x070 (8), val 0x43
> > > acpi: bad read from port 0x071 (8)
> > >
> > > The hardware is an Intel L440GX+ MB with dual 1Ghz CPUs with SMP (I 
tried
> > > a kernel without SMP, but it didn't help), 1GB ECC RAM, 1GB Swap, 
Adaptec
> > > 2100 SCSI RAID level 1.  It apppears to be lightly loaded in terms of 
CPU
> > > and RAM.
> >
> > Have you verified that you're running with the latest BIOS?  On a system
> > that old, there's a decent chance the ACPI implementation is buggy.
> > Have you tried running with ACPI disabled?
> 
> Yes, I did...still had the same problem.

Then it's not an ACPI problem. :)  The bad read/write messages above I think 
you don't need to worry about either.  Sounds more like a hardware issue of 
sorts.

-- 
John Baldwin



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