Broken Compaq ML530 G1 ACPI.

Tue May 9 17:08:21 UTC 2006

David Robillard wrote:

> We have some Compaq ML530 G1 machines and I would like to upgrade them
> to FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE-p7. Unfortunately, the ACPI seems to be broken
> and the systems freeze when booting with ACPI.

It might be worth trying 6.1.

> I did not find a whole lot of info on the mailing list archives. Just 
> this post
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-acpi/2005-December/002324.html
> from which I tried the patch. But it fails to compile.

The "patch" only consists of adding a few printf's to the kernel to get 
more debugging information, so it'd be interesting to know what the 
compile error is.