HP OmniBook XE3 ACPI

[Doug White]

On Wed, 16 Jul 2003, Angel Todorov wrote:

> i have a question concerning the fbsd acpi support for HP omnibook
> laptops. When i boot (5.1-RELEASE) with the acpi being enabled, the
> machine just stops responding while the kernel is loading, but i can
> load with ACPI being disabled without any problem. I was wondering
> whether anyone has a solution for that. Thanks

HPs have famously broken ACPI.  I tried to fix it once but its a pretty
serious structural issue in the DSDT having to do with child-before-parent
initializations. Heck, the machines don't even run correctly under
Windows.

Unless you'd like to learn ASL, I suggest sticking with apm.

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