calcru: negative runtime errors with acpi enabled

[Niels Pedersen]

Hello

i am a brand new newbie. I have just installed FreeBSD 5,3 on an old
Compaq 5360 with a AMD-K6 and 128MB of ram.
The install went resonably well and I have Xorg and Gnome2.8 running
(installed from ports after a complete cvsup). Gnome takes a while to
load but that is expected. I am getting some coaching from another
newbie with 11 months FreeBSD experience.


niels at compaq:~> uname -a
FreeBSD compaq.sd.cox.net 5.3-RELEASE-p2 FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE-p2 #1: Thu
Dec 30 1 2:14:21 PST 2004
niels at compaq.sd.cox.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386

The following line is from dmesg:
CPU: AMD-K6(tm) 3D processor (450.13-MHz 586-class CPU)

The biggest problem I have is that I have to boot with ACPI disabled.
With ACPI enabled I get continuous errors showing

calcru: negative runtime on pid (varies)

Google'ing for this error shows this hit
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-acpi/2004-August/000532.html
(url may have wrapped)

This thread deals with a 5.2.1 and was patched to correct it. Has this
patch been incorporated into 5.3 Release? I cvsup'd the source and built
a new world but the problem remains.

Thank you in advance for any help.

Niels

P.S. I am subscibed to this list.