XFree86 & ACPI don't like each other?

[Dan Langille]

On Tue, 27 Apr 2004, John Baldwin wrote:

> On Tuesday 27 April 2004 09:42 am, Dan Langille wrote:
> > Sorry, my previous message was incomplete.
> >
> > On Tue, 27 Apr 2004, John Baldwin wrote:
> > > On Sunday 25 April 2004 05:08 pm, Daniel Roethlisberger wrote:
> > > > Hans Lambermont <hans at lambermont.dyndns.org> [2004-04-25/19:47]:
> > > > > James Snow wrote:
> > > > > > On the other hand, X and ACPI don't seem to get along very well. If
> > > > > > I boot with ACPI, X will sometimes hang when starting or stopping.
> > > > > > Doesn't appear to be very consistent or predictable, but I can't
> > > > > > get through more than 1 clean start and stop of X without it
> > > > > > locking the machine up solid.
> > > >
> > > > I have the same problem. Running a non-SMP kernel fixes the problem for
> > > > me without having to disable ACPI. Also see this open PR:
> > > > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=misc/60512
> > >
> > > Did you remove 'device apic' as well?
> >
> > FWIW, X under 5.2.1-RELEASE would freeze on me.  Creating a non-SMP kernel
> > solved the problem for me.  I'm still using ACPI but only just started
> > using sleep/resume.  I did not remove apic.
>
> So just removing SMP, but not removing apic?  What if you boot the SMP kernel
> with 'kern.smp.disabled=1' set from the loader?

I installed an SMP kernel, added kern.smp.disabled=1 to /etc/loader.conf,
and rebooted. I have since gone into X, quit, and back into X.  No
freezing.

David: can you explain how this helps analyze the problem? (i.e
disabling SMP versus removing it from the kernel)

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