power off issues introduced btw 05/28/04 and 05/29/04

[Phil Schulz]

Hi!

   My laptop does not shut down properly when I issue "halt -p", 
"shutdown -p now" or hit the power button. When it is supposed to be 
shut off, the fan spins up and lots of random colored dots appear all 
over the display. The problem was introduced between May 28th, 2004 and 
May 29th, 2004.
  njl@ mentions that he has finnished a some work on ACPI events 
possibly on May 28th in a message [1] to this list, so I think it might 
be related to my problem.
  I know it is kind of late to report this but I ran RELENG_5_2 at the 
time and did not notice anything until upgrading to RELENG_5 after 5.3 
was released.
  The laptop is a Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo M-7400 using the latest BIOS 
version provided by Fujitsu-Siemens. It runs FreeBSD 5-Stable as of Apr 
05, 2005 around 13:00 GMT. The other information as requested by the 
handbook in section 11.16 is available at

http://www.home.fh-karlsruhe.de/~scph0020/downloads/freebsd/acpi/

  Can anybody help me? I'd be happy to provide more information on 
request and I can also provide console access for anybody who is interested.

  Kind regards,

    Phil.

P.S.: Please cc: me on replies since I am not on the list.

[1] http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-acpi/2004-May/000196.html