Will FreeBSD *EVER* support Hp Pavillion laptops?

[wrangled]

Astrodog wrote:

>On 12/3/05, Marcin Jessa <lists at yazzy.org> wrote:
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>>On Sat, 03 Dec 2005 01:43:18 -0500
>>wrangled <wrangled at verizon.net> wrote:
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>>>Every year I try the latest version of FreeBSD to see if it works on
>>>my HP Pavillion 5445, and each year it hangs as soon as the intaller
>>>gets to acpi.ko.
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>>Did you try unloading ACPI when you boot the install cd ?
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>>>Yes, I've tried everything.  No, it still doesn't work.
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>>How much of everything did you try ?
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>>>It's my only machine that cannot run FreeBSD.
>>>It just seems odd since the machine is fairly mainstream.
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>>>I am mostly just curious at this point.
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>More laptop details, please?
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It is a zv5445us HP Pavillion.  512MB, P4, 100GB drive.  The BIOS does 
not let you turn off hyperthreading, or turn off ACPI (I got what I paid 
for, I guess).

I've tried every option from the install menus on FreeBSD 4.x, 5.x, and 
6.x.  For the custom boot (#6 on 6.0-Release) , I normally try:

   set hint.acpi.0.disabled=1
   set hint.apic.0.disabled=1
   set kern.smp.disabled-1

I'm not a FreeBSD expert, so maybe there are better options I should 
try.  Google normally has the top two (acpi and apic).

Any suggestions?

thanks!