Kernel modules & the 5.2.1-p9 to 5.3b7 migration?

[Joshua Tinnin]

On Sunday 10 October 2004 01:35 pm, Alan Gerber <agerber at ncsu.edu> 
wrote:
> Joshua Tinnin wrote:
> >On Sunday 10 October 2004 12:47 pm, Alan Gerber <agerber at ncsu.edu>
> >wrote:
> >>I recently decided to update my 5.2.1-p9 system to the latest beta
> >> to check out the improvements in ACPI code on my Dell Latitude
> >> D600 laptop.  So I updated sources and went through the usual
> >>[build|install][world|kernel] procedure as described in the
> >> handbook:
> >> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/makeworl
> >>d.h tml
> >
> >Did you rebuild your ports? If you haven't done this, you probably
> >should, as GCC has been updated. While you're at it you might want
> > to remove the mapping in libmap.conf and rebuild for the new
> > library versions in BETA7. I'm not sure if that will solve your
> > ACPI problems, but it has to be done anyway.
>
> Yes.  I have rebuilt each of my installed ports, so in theory the
> libmap.conf mappings should be unnecessary.  The problem still
> persists after removing the mappings, so it doesn't look like that
> has an affect on the problem either way.

OK, well I doubted that was it, but just wanted to check.

Have you tried booting without ACPI, such as: hint.acpi.0.disabled="1"
in /boot/device.hints? I realize this defeats the purpose of your 
updating, but it might be worth seeing if it works without it.

- jt