Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2003 20:55:10 -0500 From: Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen@math.missouri.edu> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ACPI on Tyan Motherboard Message-ID: <3F42D4FE.30401@math.missouri.edu> In-Reply-To: <20030820014226.GC90099@dragon.nuxi.com> References: <3F428FE7.5000104@math.missouri.edu> <XFMail.20030819181319.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <20030820014226.GC90099@dragon.nuxi.com>
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David O'Brien wrote: > On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 06:13:19PM -0400, John Baldwin wrote: > >>>Following up your suggestion that it is a hardware problem, I decided >>>to try updating the BIOS from version 2.10 to 2.14. Now start up >>>produces lots of ACPI error messages. > > ... > >>The 2.10 is the version of the PCI BIOS specification that your motherboard >>BIOS supports. It is unrelated to the version of your motherboard BIOS. > > > NO. His "2.10" above *IS* the version of his BIOS. I know exactly what > version he had and has now. He is correct about the extra ACPI error > verbage. > But why would FreeBSD tell me that the BIOS version is 2.10 when I just installed version 2.14? Is this something wrong with the bios update features of this motherboard? The bios update seemed to go successfully. I might add that even with this updated BIOS, that seems to be more buggy from FreeBSD-current's point of view, that power down still works fine with Windows 2000. (It would be nice to have working ACPI with FreeBSD, but I'm not going to be greatly upset if it doesn't work. From every other point of view, this motherboard seems to work very nicely, with every operating system I have tried on it. My main reason for wanting properly working powerdown is so that if a fan stops working, then the healthd program would kick in and power-down the computer. Of course it is possible that if a fan breaks, then the CPU overheats so quickly that the healthd/"acpiconf -s S5" combination just isn't quick enough. In that case, ACPI is nothing more than a nicety for me.) -- Stephen Montgomery-Smith stephen@math.missouri.edu http://www.math.missouri.edu/~stephen
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