Hard Lockups

[RobP7]

Can someone please help me? I am having major lockup issues with 1.4. My laptop is a Compaq Presario R4000. The lockups appear to be completely random. When this happens the keyboard and mouse are frozen. The only option is to power off the system.
I am unable to boot without ACPI enabled. The kernel goes into panic and reboots. Safe mode seems to work.
The basic specs include:
CPU - Sempron 3500+ (tested fine)
Ram - 512MB PC2700 (tested fine)
Video - ATI Radeon Xpress 200M (tried VESA, ATI, and ATI w/3D support)
Am I missing something here?

[keith]

Howdy Rob,

seemed to have same problem and with my Gateway using a Turion processor. After many installs and much foul language finally found at FreeBSD site that 'powerd' locked up AMD processors and it remains uncorrected. Look in /etc/rc.conf and you'll probably find 'powerd' set up automatically. Try commenting out both lines and then reboot. This solved it for me. I had to comment out before I hit the 2 minute mark on my last install.

Good luck,

Keith

[RobP7]

I saw that it wants to use "adaptive" for both ac and battery power. I'll definitely give that a try.

[RobP7]

Keith,

Well, so far so good. I haven't had any lockups after a fresh install.

THANKS,
Rob

[RobP7]

Good News... it appears the powerd command may have been causing issues. Once it was disabled, the system seems to run fine. :D

[Solarin]

Thanks for this information guys,

From the next version, we'll disable powerd by default for systems using AMD CPUs.