Acer Aspire 5672 and FreeBSD 6.2-beta1

[Bruno Ducrot]

On Sat, Sep 30, 2006 at 12:12:13AM +0200, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote:
> I have just tested FreeBSD 6.2-beta1 (i386) on the AS5672 laptop (see
> the archives of this ist for my earlier attempts.
> Change from last time: the BIOs is update to version v1.3234 (release
> date 08/09/06).
> 
> Behaviour is like before.
> 
> With no special "tweaks" (ie. nothing disabled), the bge network cards
> in the machine fail to attach.
> With ACPI disabled, and routing for irq 18 forced, bge works, but
> without acpi, the machine get too hot within less than an hour.
> 
> dmesg's (standard and verbose) are on this page:
> http://tingox.googlepages.com/aceraspireas5672andfreebsd
> 

Since you have upgraded the BIOS, could you please add an acpidump?

acpidump -d -t > acer_aspire_5672.asl

I think next step should be to tweak somewhat some of the _INI methods.

Cheers,

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Bruno Ducrot

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