XFree86 & ACPI don't like each other?

[Dan Langille]

Sorry, my previous message was incomplete.

On Tue, 27 Apr 2004, John Baldwin wrote:

> On Sunday 25 April 2004 05:08 pm, Daniel Roethlisberger wrote:
> > Hans Lambermont <hans at lambermont.dyndns.org> [2004-04-25/19:47]:
> > > James Snow wrote:
> > > > On the other hand, X and ACPI don't seem to get along very well. If
> > > > I boot with ACPI, X will sometimes hang when starting or stopping.
> > > > Doesn't appear to be very consistent or predictable, but I can't get
> > > > through more than 1 clean start and stop of X without it locking the
> > > > machine up solid.
> >
> > I have the same problem. Running a non-SMP kernel fixes the problem for
> > me without having to disable ACPI. Also see this open PR:
> > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=misc/60512
>
> Did you remove 'device apic' as well?

FWIW, X under 5.2.1-RELEASE would freeze on me.  Creating a non-SMP kernel
solved the problem for me.  I'm still using ACPI but only just started
using sleep/resume.  I did not remove apic.

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