Unable to install System Control Interrupt handler [20070320]

[jonathan at kc8onw.net]

On Tue, June 5, 2007 2:18 pm, John Baldwin wrote:
> On Saturday 02 June 2007 03:46:41 am jonathan at kc8onw.net wrote:
>
>> I just updated to the latest -current from 6.2 release on an amd64
>> system and get the below error ACPI Exception (evevent-0257):
>> AE_ALREADY_EXISTS, Unable to install System
>> Control Interrupt handler [20070320]
>>
>>
>> I found this thread that discusses it as well but it seems to have
>> mostly died off without a clear resolution.
>>
> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/htdig/freebsd-acpi/2005-December/002307.
> html
>>
>> I know the BIOS in this machine is pretty poor but I would like to get
>> it working.
>
> Add 'device atpic' to your kernel.

That fixed it!

Thank you very much,
Jonathan