Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2003 21:42:24 +0200 From: Marc Fonvieille <blackend@FreeBSD.org> To: monet@arthur.avalon.net Cc: doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: hint.acpi.0.disabled="1" Message-ID: <20030709194224.GB554@nosferatu.blackend.org> In-Reply-To: <5.2.0.9.2.20030709132212.00b02b28@mail.avalon.net> References: <5.2.0.9.2.20030709132212.00b02b28@mail.avalon.net>
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On Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 02:25:38PM -0500, monet@arthur.avalon.net wrote: > On the page http://www.freebsd.org/relnotes/CURRENT/hardware/i386/proc.html > > it states: > > The use of ACPI causes instabilities on some machines and it may be > necessary to disable > the ACPI driver, which is normally loaded via a kernel module. This may > be accomplished by > adding the following line to /boot/device.hints: > > hint.acpi.0.disabled="1" > > But a developer friend of mine insists the line should read > > hint.acpi.0.disable="1" > > without a "d" > it's disabled with a "d". > And truth be told, it doesn't matter wether EITHER of these lines are in > the device.hints file. ACPI works or it doesn't, randomly, regardless of > any changes I make. Weird, it should work. Try to enter unset acpi_load at the loader prompt at boot or add the line exec="unset acpi_load" in the boot/loader.conf file. Marc
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