Acer Aspire AS5672 laptop - acpi problems

John Baldwin jhb at freebsd.org
Tue Jul 18 19:22:33 UTC 2006


On Monday 17 July 2006 15:32, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Jul 2006 11:38:04 -0400
> John Baldwin <jhb at freebsd.org> wrote:
> 
> > You can force the IRQ to 18 in the non-ACPI case via a tunable in the
> > loader:
> > 
> > hw.pci4.0.INTA.irq=18
> 
> > [...]
> > which has 17 for the !ACPI case.  So try it with ACPI disabled and
> > the above tunable.
> 
> Yes! This works, bge0 attaches and works! Great!
> dmesg output attached.

Cool.  This means your bios has a buggy MP Table.  You maybe can give enough 
details to Acer that they would be able to fix it in an updated BIOS.
 
> >  Also, it should work with both ACPI and APIC  disabled.
> 
> You mean acpi disabled, apic disabled, and irq18 forced?
> That doesn't work, dmesg output in another mail.

Ah, you wouldn't force the IRQ for the both disabled case.  My e-mail was 
confusing in that part it turns out.

-- 
John Baldwin


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