Re: ACPI broke going from 8 to 9

From: Garrett Cooper <yanegomi_at_gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2011 10:40:17 -0800
On Sat, Dec 31, 2011 at 9:03 AM, Dan Allen <danallen46_at_airwired.net> wrote:
> I just upgraded my Dell OptiPlex GX270 from RELENG_8 to RELENG_9.  The machine no longer boots.  However, if I put
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>  hint.acpi.0.disabled=1
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> in /boot/loader.conf then the machine runs fine.  With RELENG_8 the machine had no loader.conf, and the power button worked on my desktop machine.  Now with ACPI disabled my power button does not work.  I have found that the machine hangs at boot during a scan of the PCI bus, but if I disable that (hw.acpi.disable=pci) then the machine cannot find a boot drive.
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> So I have lost functionality that worked fine in BSD 8.
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> Thoughts?  Suggestions?

    Is your Optiplex running the latest BIOS firmware?
Thanks!
-Garrett
Received on Sat Dec 31 2011 - 17:40:17 UTC

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