Acer Aspire AS5672 laptop - acpi problems

[John Baldwin]

On Tuesday 18 July 2006 17:41, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote:
> On Tue, 18 Jul 2006 15:04:51 -0400
> John Baldwin <jhb at freebsd.org> wrote:
> 
> > Cool.  This means your bios has a buggy MP Table.  You maybe can give
> > enough details to Acer that they would be able to fix it in an
> > updated BIOS. 
> 
> I would *love* to do that. Does anyone have a contact person or a
> working procedure for submitting info to Acer? My current experience
> with (most) commercial vendors is that standard support channels
> (email, web forms) just works as a black hole - you put something in,
> and never hear about it again. Note: i haven't any previous experience
> with Acer, so I do not know if they are in the "black hole" category.

No ideas on this one.

> > Ah, you wouldn't force the IRQ for the both disabled case.  My e-mail
> > was confusing in that part it turns out.
> 
> Ok. I just tried it with both acpi and apic disabled, but then bge0
> doesn't work again. The only difference I spotted in the dmesg was an
> interrupt storm on irq 10, but I didn't look very closely. New dmesg
> attached.

Well, this is likely due to more bugs in your BIOS.  I would just go with ACPI 
disabled and APIC with the override for now. :)

-- 
John Baldwin