On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 01:14:49PM -0500, Steve Rumble wrote:
>     ACPI-1283: *** Error: Method execution failed
>     [\_SB_.PCI0.LPC_.EC__.BAT0._STA] (Node 0xc1987060), AE_NOT_EXIST

This is due rev. 1.47 change in dev/acpi/acpi.c.
Your system really needs AcpiInitializeObjects() to be called with flags
ACPI_NO_DEVICE_INIT | ACPI_NO_OBJECT_INIT.
Try this patch:

--- dev/acpi/acpi.c	2003/11/03 18:51:31	1.57
+++ dev/acpi/acpi.c	2003/11/09 00:29:16
@@ -293,7 +293,7 @@
 		    sc->sc_dev.dv_xname, AcpiFormatException(rv));
 		return;
 	}
-	rv = AcpiInitializeObjects(0);
+	rv = AcpiInitializeObjects(ACPI_NO_DEVICE_INIT |
ACPI_NO_OBJECT_INIT);
 	if (ACPI_FAILURE(rv)) {
 		printf("%s: unable to initialize ACPI objects: %s\n",
 		    sc->sc_dev.dv_xname, AcpiFormatException(rv));

-- 
   Alexander Yurchenko (aka grange)