Hello Hubert,

From: Hubert Feyrer <hubert.feyrer@informatik.fh-regensburg.de>
Subject: ACPI vs. a "legacy free" notebook... :/
Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2003 01:26:56 +0200 (MEST)

> Is there some way to at least make the machine DTRT on "reboot", instead
> of just hang?

There are several reports that ACPI CA imported in early March
caused reboot/powerdown problems.  You might be hit by the same
one.

If you have time, could you test the patch that Kanaoka-san
provided?  That patch incorporates newer Intel's ACPI CA
implementation and may fix the problem.

On Wed, 02 Apr 2003 07:07:46 +0900 (JST)
Kanaoka-san wrote:

|Hi,
|
|My source files under sys/dev/acpi/acpica/Subsystem were caught up
|with acpica-unix-20030328.tar.gz, and it works fine for me.
| 
|This patch includes for sys/dev/acpi/acpi_ec.c.
|I don't have acpi ec device,so I don't test it.
|   
|  I have put that patch at:
|      http://www.ann.hi-ho.ne.jp/~kanaoka/acpica-20030328.diff.gz
|
|	% /usr/bin/md5 acpica-20030328.diff.gz                         
|	MD5 (acpica-20030328.diff.gz) = b329e6d0877e56d51c4cf4e317ea62a8
|
|You can try it like below:
|  
|   	# cd /usr/src
|   	# zcat /somewhere/acpica-20030328.diff.gz | patch -p1 -E
|  	# cd /sys/arch/i386/conf
|   	# config your-config;cd ../compile/your-config
|  	# make depend;make;make install
|  
|You can find release note for latest ACPI CA(20030328) code at:
|      http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=149501

Takayoshi Kochi