Problem with ACPI using Gigabyte GA-6BX7

[Rui Paulo]

On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 05:16:12PM +0200, Zbigniew Baniewski wrote:
> Hallo,
> 
> I'm trying FreeBSD with that (somewhat old) motherboard, and I'm unable to
> boot the system with ACPI - it just stays at the lines:
> 
> Timecounter "TSC" frequency 701594265 Hz quality 800
> Timecounters tick every 1.000 msec
> 
> ...then it seems to be hung (needs "cold reset").
> 
> 
> Any ideas, how to get past this point other way, than just switching ACPI off?

How old is your system?
Many old systems have broken ACPI implementations.

Regards,
-- 
Rui Paulo