Re: ACPI problems

[Alex Goncharov <alex-goncharov%comcast.net@localhost>]

| > I'm having weird problems with ACPI on NetBSD-5.0_STABLE, running on
| > dual Pentium 3 machine.
| > Any idea of this could be a hardware fault or perhaps software related
| My first bet would be hardware fault, but there's a simple way to test 
| this : try a livecd of you choice

Speaking from experience with two machines: NetBSD 5.x is pretty bad
at shutting down MP systems.  The same box will be consistently
powered off by FreeBSD -- and never, or almost never, by NetBSD.

-- Alex -- alex-goncharov%comcast.net@localhost --