* Nate Lawson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20030109 21:34]: wrote:
> On Sat, 4 Jan 2003, Trent Nelson wrote:
> > On Fri, Jan 03, 2003 at 11:16:57AM -0800, Nate Lawson wrote:
> > > Sounds like an atkbd or syscons problem.
> > > Did you suspend the laptop and resume before this happens?
> > 
> >     No.  However, it happened to me today shorty after I issued a sysctl
> >     -w hw.acpi.cpu.economy_speed=8.  (Why does it default to 4 anyway?)
> 
> Try Taku-san's patch.  I'm unfamiliar with this section of acpi so I can't
> help here.
>  
> > > How does "unset acpi_load" at the boot prompt change things?
> > 
> >     Well, I can't reproduce it consistently, so it'll be hard to determ-
> >     ine if disabling ACPI does the trick.
> > 
> >     I also noticed I was able to drop into the debugger and the keyboard
> >     works fine in it.  Can you suggest what I should be looking for?
> 
> I don't know.  I was just trying to get you to post more information so
> others could help also.  I'd suspect an interrupt problem if it works in
> ddb but not at the console.  Can you supply dmesg for boot with acpi as
> well as after "unset acpi_load"?  I'm curious about the atkbd probe line
> in particular.


Just to add my $0.02 cents, I've seen my box freeze momentarily since I
updated to -current two days ago, but I haven't yet done enough to
capture the event that causes this. If there is some info I need to
provide, I'll be more than willing to take the matter up.

When is this  "unset acpi_load" done? I can provide the info rqd.


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