Hi,

Thank's for the suggestions.  It turns out I can comment out all the devices 
and I still get the reboots.  In fact, the only line I need is the

acpi0           at mainbus0

line.

Sverre


On Saturday 11 January 2003 17:59, you wrote:
> G'day,
>
> what happens if you comment out the acpibat device? Does it still reboot
> your laptop?
>
> The kernel will crash on my laptop whenever the acpibat device is enabled.
>
> cheerio Berndt
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > On an HP Omnibook 6000 (i386), I added the following options to my config
> > file (source is current from 10 Jan.):
> >
> > ioapic* at mainbus?
> >
> > acpi0           at mainbus0
> > options         ACPI_PCI_FIXUP=1        # PCI interrupt routing via ACPI
> > options         ACPI_ACTIVATE_DEV=0     # If set, activate inactive
> > devices
> >
> > # ACPI devices
> > acpiacad*       at acpi?                # ACPI AC Adapter
> > acpibat*        at acpi?                # ACPI Battery
> > acpibut*        at acpi?                # ACPI Button
> > acpiec*         at acpi?                # ACPI Embedded Controller
> > acpilid*        at acpi?                # ACPI Lid Switch
> > acpitz*         at acpi?                # ACPI Thermal Zone
> >
> > # Mainboard devices
> > com*            at acpi?                # Serial communications interface
> > fdc*            at acpi?                # Floppy disk controller
> > lpt*            at acpi?                # Parallel port
> > npx*            at acpi?                # Math coprocessor
> > pckbc*          at acpi?                # PC keyboard controller
> > wss*            at acpi?                # NeoMagic 256AV in wss mode
> >
> > The resulting kernel makes the computer reboot during what appears to be
> > the acpi section.
> >
> > Here are three examples of (garbled) dmesg output:
> >
> > (Node 0xc0922320), AE_NOT_EXISod execution failed [\_SB_.PCI0.
> >
> > acpi0 at mainbus0
> > acpi0: X/RSDT: Oe
> >
> >  mainbus0
> > acpi0: X/RSDT: OemId <HP-MCD,EA RSDT ,01820000>, AslId < LTP,00000000>
> >
> > Sverre