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From: Marc Fonvieille <blackend@FreeBSD.org>
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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