ACPI on Tyan Thunder K7

[Stephen Montgomery-Smith]

Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote:
> I have a Tyan Thunder K7 S2462 motherboard running its latest BIOS 
> (version 2.14).  ACPI simply does not work at all.  A long time ago I 
> asked about this motherboard, and I was told that ACPI on this 
> motherboard is faulty.
> 
> But then I was told some place I could forward my dmesg output where 
> they might be able to work out what was wrong and provide a fix.

I meant to add: I never followed up on this message, and have since lost 
the email address (if it still exists).