On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 11:21:24AM -0500, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote: > I'm glad FreeBSD 8 is working for you. Given, however, that every > other operating system you tried to use reported severe ACPI issues, > I have to say I'm a little surprised, and I tend to think there must > be something more than a little nonstandard or broken about your > system's hardware....
One not so unlikely candidate is that acpica grew Yet Another Workaround. But I can't tell as I am not even really sure that broke. Joerg