,--- You/Matthias (Tue, 5 Jan 2010 17:32:54 +0100) ----* | alex-goncha...@comcast.net said: | > ACPI Error: No handler for Region [ERAM] (0xffff800007b1ef00) | > [EmbeddedControl] (20090730/evregion-430) | | The handler for the "EmbeddedControl" space is provided by the | "acpiec" driver. Your summary doesn't give any indication that | one was attached. This could be part of the problem. | Whether not configured or not probed correctly... I can't tell | about this driver's quality, none of my boxes uses an embedded | controller. | An ACPI DSDT table dump could be helpful.
Thank you: over the next few days, I am planning to attempt a BIOS upgrade and enter a PR with an ACPI dump (I'll "man" for how to do such dumps but if anybody has a specific recommendation, please let me know.) Another thing about ACPI in NetBSD that bothers me: "halt -p" not always powers off a computer. I *think* I didn't forget the `-p' option to `halt' last night -- still, the machine was halted without switching off. This is not unusual for this laptop -- OpenSolaris *never* was able to power it off (with "poweroff" command). But this is also not unusual for NetBSD: I have an about one-year-old desktop with four disk BIOS partitions divided between FreeBSD and NetBSD, both of the i386 and amd64 varieties. FreeBSD will never fail to power off that system on `halt -p'. NetBSD (5.0.1) will sometimes do it, sometimes not: while not totally deterministic, the chances to be powered off are close to 1 when `halt -p' is issued on the console, and 0 when the command is entered via an xterm (displayed on another system). -- Alex -- alex-goncha...@comcast.net --
