ACPI on Tyan Thunder K7

[Stephen Montgomery-Smith]

Søren Schmidt wrote:
> Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote:
> 
>> David O'Brien wrote:
>>
>>> On Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 07:52:37PM -0500, 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.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Define "does not work at all".
>>>
>>
>> Well as you can see from the ACPI error messages in dmesg (which is 
>> included in my previous email) a lot of stuff isn't working.
>>
>> But more than that, if I do "shutdown -p now" the computer does halt, 
>> and then it switches off, but in a strange way - the fans are still 
>> going, all the lights are on, but the video card stops working, and 
>> the on/off button does nothing, even if I hold it down for several 
>> seconds.  I have to press the reset button for it to start again.
> 
> 
> This is a problem on several machines not just yours, in fact from my 
> experience its a problem for most machines.
> 
> ACPI has been in a sorrowly sad shape since mid august or there abouts.
> I think the releng team is aware of it and trying to decide what todo 
> about it for 5.3-RELEASE, backstepping might be the only way to go..
> 


I think that my problem is probably unrelated to your experiences.  For 
me, ACPI has always not worked like this for FreeBSD-5.x, whereas my 
impression is that for everyone else it came about between Beta4 and Beta5.