On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 12:37 AM, Steve Quinn <letter2st...@gmail.com>wrote:
> Hi folks > > I have been recently playing with OpenBSD. > I am very impressed with the whole experience, great job people !! > Just one side note. Most (or all?) "major" operating systems are using implementation of ACPI from Intel, but OpenBSD has own implementation http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=acpi&sektion=4&apropos=0&manpath=OpenBSD+Current&arch=i386, which may be sometimes problematic, but generally fixes are available very quickly compared to that general implementation. > > I am using an HP nc6320 Laptop. > > Quite often, I get an error similar to this with amd64 5.4 and 5.5 > acpitz3: critical temperature exceeded 3786C, shutting down > > For me it was a nice error to get, because it introduced me to the > coolness of using boot -c and config -e > I have no problems working around the issue. > > I did some digging and see others with the same issue on similar hardware > > http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.os.openbsd.misc/176044 > http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.os.openbsd.misc/205033 > > I'd like to offer the use of my HP nc6320 if a Developer would like to > play directly with the hardware to assist others in the community with > the issue. > I'll be at BSDCan 2014 and can bring it along. Otherwise, please let > me know if/how I can be of any help. > Good quick start is to send dmesg output from latest -current (both i386 and amd64 IF there's some difference) and something which you probably already checked ; BIOS versions > > Take care > > Steve Quinn
