> So I've recently installed 4.4 on a new via idot pc3500-g motherboard,
> which is all great, but I note that ACPI isn't working. Is there
> anything helpful I can contribute to getting it working on this
> system?
>
> Or do dmesg notes like 'pcibios0: bad IRQ table checksum' suggest that
> the system is pretty much braindead? I've included a dmesg below, but
> no acpidump, given how big it is.
>
> Once again, thanks in advance...
>
> - Ruan
>
> OpenBSD 4.4 (GENERIC) #1021: Tue Aug 12 17:16:55 MDT 2008
> dera...@i386.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC
> cpu0: VIA Esther processor 1500MHz ("CentaurHauls" 686-class) 1.51 GHz
> cpu0:
> FPU,V86,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,CMOV,PAT,CFLUSH,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,TM,SBF,SSE3
> cpu0: RNG AES AES-CTR SHA1 SHA256 RSA
> real mem = 1005023232 (958MB)
> avail mem = 963248128 (918MB)
> mainbus0 at root
> bios0 at mainbus0: AT/286+ BIOS, date 10/13/08, BIOS32 rev. 0 @
> 0xf9a60, SMBIOS rev. 2.4 @ 0xf0000 (31 entries)
> bios0: vendor Phoenix Technologies, LTD version "FDd" date 10/13/2008
> bios0: PC1 PC3500G
> apm0 at bios0: Power Management spec V1.2 (slowidle)
> apm0: AC on, battery charge unknown
There is a heuristic which selects apm on some machines instead of
acpi. A few machines unfortunately fall into this set unintentionally,
but there is nothing we can do about it at this time.
