bin/54066: ACPI repeating error messages at boot time - no apm device created.

[Kris Kennaway]

The following reply was made to PR bin/54066; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Kris Kennaway <kris at obsecurity.org>
To: Michael Dill <madill48 at earthlink.net>
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: bin/54066: ACPI repeating error messages at boot time - no apm device created.
Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2003 23:56:43 -0700

 On Sat, Jul 12, 2003 at 10:55:47PM -0700, Michael Dill wrote:
 > Kris:
 > 
 > My apology for being unclear in my bug report.  I 'was' using an older
 > acpi.ko until it ceased to work.  The dmesg text that I included in my
 > report is from a recent kernel and acpi.ko module.  The problem is - all
 > the current ones since the initial release of 5.0_CURRENT have given
 > this error on my Dell Inspiron 4000.
 > 
 > My perusal of other bug reports and usenet msg's show that many others
 > with Dells are having the same or similar problems.
 > 
 > Hope this clears things up a bit.  Anything else you would have me do,
 > just let me know.  I would love to see this bug fixed.  Thanks,
 
 OK.  It's possible it's an ACPI bug.  I'm currently trying to
 determine where ACPI PRs should be assigned so the relevant developers
 are aware of them.
 
 Kris