Problem with ACPI using Abit BE6-II V2.0

[Nate Lawson]

Zbigniew Baniewski wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 07:25:39PM -0700, Nate Lawson wrote:
> 
>> Since the problems are specific to this system, which was manufactured 
>> in 1999, you're going to find it hard to get others to fix things for 
>> you.  So the best bet is to try to track down what Linux is doing 
>> differently.  This is a great opportunity for you to join in!
> 
> My new problems with ACPI under FreeBSD 7.0 - described in another thread -
> gave me an idea to try older FreeBSD version: it was V5.3, which I tested
> using Freesbie V1.1 live-CD.
> 
> Neither that Abit BE6-II V2.0, nor Gigabyte GA-6BX7 made any ACPI-related
> problems. So the only conclusion is, that it wasn't "broken ACPI
> implementation" (which you wrote immediately, without taking any closer
> look at the reported problem), but the FreeBSD's ACPI drivers have been
> spoiled somewhere between versions V5.3 and V7.0.
> 
> Attached you'll find two "verbose dmesgs", taken from within V5.3:
> 
> - freesbie_v.txt.gz was made while working with Abit
> - freesbie2_v.txt.gz was made while working with Gigabyte
> 
> That's (probably) all I can do to help to trace the problem (of course, if
> FreeBSD developers care about reported bugs at all). Pay attention, that
> it's not just "fixing things especially for me" - because such mobos were
> manufactured in thousands of exemplars, and plenty of them around, still
> in use.

Just to give your bug report some perspective, that's a Pentium 3 system
and it runs with acpi disabled just fine.  I know everyone thinks their
problem is the most important, but please understand that sometimes you
have to take up the gauntlet and join the team.

-- 
Nate