Yesterday I dug up a whole lot of stuff and I was able to see my x4100.

Next time I should be able to get it home.  Sorry for the delay.
On Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 02:21:54AM -0500, Daniel Ouellet wrote:

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> Stuart Henderson wrote:

>> On 2007/11/28 21:00, Daniel Ouellet wrote:

>>> Stuart Henderson wrote:

>>>> Well, it's certainly a bit odd that amd64 doesn't detect the ipmi, and i386

>>>> does... I don't really have any other clues though :(

>>

>> Ah. It's not odd at all...

>>

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>> revision 1.139

>> date: 2006/06/01 00:35:51;  author: beck;  state: Exp;  lines: +2 -2

>> Disable ipmi in GENERIC for the moment - it breaks too much stuff

>> on any of my sun amd64's as well as other ones (hp). We can re-enable

>> it again when marco fixes it to be stable.

>>

>> ok deraadt@ and the crocodile hunter..

>> ----------------------------

>>

>> /me crawls back under rock.

>

> I did many tests and even if that was disable, it was turn back on

>

> Revision 1.148

> Thu Aug 3 18:19:04 2006 UTC

> Re-enable IPMI.  Tested by beck & ckuethe prompted by deraadt

>

> Then off again by Theo

> Revision 1.203

> Thu Nov 15 22:21:31 2007 UTC

> enable most acpi functionality by default.  now instead of 'enable

> acpi', you use 'disable acpi' or 'disable apm' withn you encounter

> problems (depending on which kind of problems).  if we work hard enough,

> this can remain the situation by the time we ship the next release.

> otherwise, we will re-disable acpi... so let's crackin'

>

> No note for the ipmi issue in this commit as to if there is still issue or

> not however. So, I guess there is.

>

> Anyway, I try to enable it and it does show in the dmesg as before.

>

> So, I guess for the crash in writing, I am back to the driver I guess.

>

> I spend the last two days on the ipmi stuff testing, etc to see why it was

> gone. So, now I know, but it doesn't help more, however, I can't say it

> hurt either now. So, if there is some tests that may be needed, I could do

> that for sure. if that help.

>

> Thanks

>

> Daniel