Problems with a Acer Aspire

[Sergio Mangialardi]

Conrad J. Sabatier wrote:
> Try choosing option 6 at the beastie menu, and then do:
> 
> set hw.apic.mixed_mode=1
> boot
> 
> I believe the GENERIC kernel is built with mixed mode off by default,
> which does cause problems on some systems (including my own).  I
> suggested a while back that it would be safer to build GENERIC without
> the NO_MIXED_MODE option, but nothing ever came of it.
> 
> Let us know if this helps or not.
Thanks for your help, but unfortunately nothing changes, the system
still freezes in the same manner...
If it can be of help, the laptop now has FreeBSD for i386 installed.

Sergio