Laptop And ACPI

[Joe Holden]

Hi, i'm having issues with a 4 year or so old laptop, if I disable acpi, the
CPU is reported at 168 MHz and the clock tends to jump about abit.

 

It's a Pentium 3 650 MHz

With speed step, which I *think* is causing the issues.

 

With ACPI enabled, it hangs at Mounting NFS Partitions, after devd etc,
although I don't have any nfs mounts.

Without ACPI enabled, it boots with the lower clock speed being reported,
and intermittent clock jumps, which is causing me to have ntpdate running on
a 60 second cron.

 

However, I'm not entirely sure the laptop supports acpi, as I experienced no
issues on FreeBsd 4.x, however, it's now running 5.3-STABLE (7 day old
cvsup).

 

If anyone could shed some light on this as to what I could do to correct it,
or some sort of patch, other than updating the bios, as that isn't possible
due to the lack of a working floppy drive, that would be great.

 

 

Thanks

Joe Holden