* Mike Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010906 22:57] wrote:
>
> I've just updated the ACPI CA components to the latest Intel release.
> You can read the release notes on Intel's website
> (http://developer.intel.com/technology/iapc/acpi).
>
> In addition, I've changed the default ACPI initialisation to the full,
> recommended-by-the-standard set of passes over the namespace.
>
> This has the potential to cause problems on some systems. If you are
> already using the debug.acpi.avoid sysctl, you will get the old
> behaviour (since the avoid mechanism does not affect some parts of
> the namespace initialisation). If the latest code locks up during device
> probes, try
>
> ok set debug.acpi.avoid=""
>
> at the loader prompt.
>
> Outstanding issues:
>
> - The ACPI timecounter does not work on some ALi chipsets.
> - ACPI mode results in some PCI devices not being configured
> by the BIOS.
Any chance this will fix the problem with sound (pcm) that I
mailed you about earlier?
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