Kernel modules & the 5.2.1-p9 to 5.3b7 migration?

[Alan Gerber]

Joshua Tinnin wrote:

>On Sunday 10 October 2004 01:35 pm, Alan Gerber <agerber at ncsu.edu> 
>wrote:
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>>Joshua Tinnin wrote:
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>>>On Sunday 10 October 2004 12:47 pm, Alan Gerber <agerber at ncsu.edu>
>>>wrote:
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>>>>I recently decided to update my 5.2.1-p9 system to the latest beta
>>>>to check out the improvements in ACPI code on my Dell Latitude
>>>>D600 laptop.  So I updated sources and went through the usual
>>>>[build|install][world|kernel] procedure as described in the
>>>>handbook:
>>>>http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/makeworl
>>>>d.h tml
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>>>Did you rebuild your ports? If you haven't done this, you probably
>>>should, as GCC has been updated. While you're at it you might want
>>>to remove the mapping in libmap.conf and rebuild for the new
>>>library versions in BETA7. I'm not sure if that will solve your
>>>ACPI problems, but it has to be done anyway.
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>>Yes.  I have rebuilt each of my installed ports, so in theory the
>>libmap.conf mappings should be unnecessary.  The problem still
>>persists after removing the mappings, so it doesn't look like that
>>has an affect on the problem either way.
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>OK, well I doubted that was it, but just wanted to check.
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>Have you tried booting without ACPI, such as: hint.acpi.0.disabled="1"
>in /boot/device.hints? I realize this defeats the purpose of your 
>updating, but it might be worth seeing if it works without it.
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>- jt
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Yes.  APM takes over in this case, and the box is usable.  However, it 
does the same thing without booting with ACPI disabled - it merely 
prints out the error message noted above and goes on its merry way - 
there is nothing preventing me from using the system whatsoever.

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Alan Gerber