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Date:      Mon, 10 Feb 2003 15:00:55 +0200
From:      Willie Viljoen <will@unfoldings.net>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 5.0 on Compaq Evo 610c notebook - no way?
Message-ID:  <200302101500.55970.will@unfoldings.net>
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It sounds to me like the Evo has a problem with its ACPI functions, 
reporting a temperature that is well outside the bounds of what any system 
should be able to handle.

The best thing I can think of would be to compile a bare kernel without ACPI 
support on another system and create a boot disk with it. Also make sure to 
make an MFSROOT disk to get sysinstall running, from there on, you will be 
able to install from the CD-ROM.

Will

On Sunday 09 February 2003 20:58, Jenisch Ewald wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm having serious trouble with setting up FreeBSD 5.0-Release on a
> Compaq Evo 610c-notebook.
>
> First of all, here's my configuration:
>
> Compaq Evo 610c notebook - ROM family 68P4F
> System-Bios: 1/17/2003 (latest available)
> RAM: 1GB
> HD: 40GB
> DVD/CD-RW
> Display: 1400x1050
> NIC: Intel Pro/100 builtin
> Modem: Lucent internal modem,
> Synaptics touchpad and pointstick
> Graphics: ATI Radeon Mobility 7500 AGP(LW) 32MB
>       Bios 6.0.0 VR006.004.006.008-001.001.001
>       350MHz DAC
>
>
> Now for the problem:
>
> I run FreeBSD-setup from a CD obtained from the ISO-image (5.0-RELEASE).
> Upon booting the system runs into a
> loop like the following:
>
> First of all the "acpi.ko" ist loaded
> Then after some messages I see
> acpi_cpu: CPU throttling enabled, 8 steps from 100% to 12.5%
> acpi_tz0: WARNING - current temperature (1331362.0C) exceeds system
> limits followed by
> ACPI-1287 *** Error: Method execution failed, AE_AML_NO_RETURN_VALUE
> with the latter one repeated dozen of times
>
> The system seems to run into a loop with the messages "acpi_tz0..."
> and "ACPI-1287..." repeated forever. The only way to "cure" the
> problem is to completely turn off power!
>
> I don't even come to the point where the system starts up in order to
> install something... :-(
>
>
>
> So here are my questions:
>
> 1) Has anybody else seen this before?
>
> 2) What can I do against it? (I *really* want to have FreeBSD running
>    on that box - "going back to Windoze" is no option for me)
>
> 3) To me it looks like ACPI doesn't work - any ways to turn it of in
>    the FreeBSD-installation? (no way to turn it of in the system BIOS -
>    I've already checked this)
>
> TIA for your help,
> -ewald
>
>
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