hi! The observation in the post about it being ACPI is also very valid.
Can you share more specific details about the hardware in the laptop? It looks like I can pick one up cheap on ebay, and if it's an ACPI problem i'm likely going to need to add printf debugging everywhere to give the ACPI maintainer some more information. ;-) -adrian On Tue, 18 Nov 2025 at 11:21, Michael <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > ==== > One of my old laptops (HP ProBook 6550b) was running FreeBSD > 14.0-RELEASE (amd64) perfectly fine, but upgrading to anything higher > results in a boot that hangs at the line: > psm0: model Synaptics Touchpad, device ID 0 > > A while ago I tried upgrading to 14.1-RELEASE and run into this problem. > Back then I decided to wait, hoping this glitch would be ironed out in a > later release. But today experimenting with 14.3-RELEASE and 15.0-STABLE > from 20251113 I got the same results. > > It would be great to find a fix for this and would like to help > troubleshooting this issue. I'm not even close to a kernel developer > though, but perfectly capable of gathering all kinds of information (I'm > a FreeBSD-user since version 4.4) and help testing. > ==== > > This is what I posted on the FreeBSD forum. The post is here: > > https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/hp-probook-6550b-not-booting-14-3-release-15-0-stable.100065/ > > The conclusion there was to try again on this mailing list. > > I tried kernels 14.1-RELEASE, 14.3-RELEASE, 15.0-STABLE and the most > recent version I tested with is > FreeBSD-16.0-CURRENT-amd64-20251110-dbb34d496708-281771 > The problem is still there. It seems the system locks up since scolling > back up doesn't work either. > > I wonder if anyone is willing to look into this. The offer to help > troubleshooting this and test a solution (if any) stands. > > Kind regards, > Michael > >
