acpi

[Nate Lawson]

On Tue, 20 Apr 2004, snd software wrote:
> hi, i've got a problem with system reboot. I've
> FreeBSD-5.2.1. my laptop(Compaq Presario 1685) freezes
> after typing 'reboot' or 'shutdown -r now' and after
> FreeBSD prints its default messages like 'syncing
> disks', etc. then my system goes blank and stays
> frozen doing nothing anymore. i never had problems
> like this with my FreeBSD-4.7. i learned that
> FreeBSD-5.x has acpi module. so i'd like to know
> whether acpi module could cause the problem i've got.
> i'd appreciate your help. thanks.

set hint.acpi.0.disabled="1" at the loader prompt and see if that helps.
The manpage for acpi has good info on this.

-Nate