Subject: Re: cannot access CD drives when ACPI is enabled
To: Steve Bellovin <smb@research.att.com>
From: John Franklin <franklin@elfie.org>
List: current-users
Date: 11/08/2003 10:42:59
On Nov 7, 2003, at 6:06 PM, Steve Bellovin wrote:
> On a desktop machine of mine, I cannot access the CD drives in ACPI
> kernels. This has been going on for a while; I try ACPI again every
> time there seems to have been a significant change. I don't think =
I've
> ever sendpr'ed it; I suppose I should...
>
> I've attached the dmesg and config files. The repeated 'lost
> interrupt' messages after boot completed were from an attempt to mount
> one of the drives.
I have been seeing similar things. i have a dual P3 (via chipset, no=20
less) that NetBSD doesn't properly route the interrupts of the onboard=20=
USB without MPACPI. The side effect is the loss of the CD drive.
I haven't tried a single proc ACPI kernel. I'll do that later today.
jf
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John Franklin
franklin@elfie.org
ICBM: 35=B043'56"N 78=B053'27"W