Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2006 10:58:22 -0400 From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Acer Aspire AS5672 laptop - acpi problems Message-ID: <200607191058.23092.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20060718234149.bd6c1d11.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> References: <20060716141100.ee18d21a.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> <200607181504.51638.jhb@freebsd.org> <20060718234149.bd6c1d11.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no>
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On Tuesday 18 July 2006 17:41, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote: > On Tue, 18 Jul 2006 15:04:51 -0400 > John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> wrote: > > > Cool. This means your bios has a buggy MP Table. You maybe can give > > enough details to Acer that they would be able to fix it in an > > updated BIOS. > > I would *love* to do that. Does anyone have a contact person or a > working procedure for submitting info to Acer? My current experience > with (most) commercial vendors is that standard support channels > (email, web forms) just works as a black hole - you put something in, > and never hear about it again. Note: i haven't any previous experience > with Acer, so I do not know if they are in the "black hole" category. No ideas on this one. > > Ah, you wouldn't force the IRQ for the both disabled case. My e-mail > > was confusing in that part it turns out. > > Ok. I just tried it with both acpi and apic disabled, but then bge0 > doesn't work again. The only difference I spotted in the dmesg was an > interrupt storm on irq 10, but I didn't look very closely. New dmesg > attached. Well, this is likely due to more bugs in your BIOS. I would just go with ACPI disabled and APIC with the override for now. :) -- John Baldwin
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