From owner-freebsd-current Tue Aug 20 3:39:33 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 32B0837B400 for ; Tue, 20 Aug 2002 03:39:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from birch.ripe.net (birch.ripe.net [193.0.1.96]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 54E0043E6A for ; Tue, 20 Aug 2002 03:39:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marks@ripe.net) Received: from laptop.6bone.nl (cow.ripe.net [193.0.1.239]) by birch.ripe.net (8.12.5/8.11.6) with SMTP id g7KAdMF4007869; Tue, 20 Aug 2002 12:39:22 +0200 Received: (nullmailer pid 17142 invoked by uid 1000); Tue, 20 Aug 2002 10:39:12 -0000 Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2002 12:39:12 +0200 From: Mark Santcroos To: "Simon 'corecode' Schubert" Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: acpi prevents fdc to detect correctly Message-ID: <20020820103912.GA1668@laptop.6bone.nl> References: <20020819170055.492ea16c.corecode@corecode.ath.cx> <20020820064320.GA760@laptop.6bone.nl> <20020820123452.0905bcb2.corecode@corecode.ath.cx> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020820123452.0905bcb2.corecode@corecode.ath.cx> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-Handles: MS6-6BONE, MS18417-RIPE X-RIPE-Spam-Status: NONE ; -1034 X-RIPE-Spam-Level: Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Aug 20, 2002 at 12:34:52PM +0200, Simon 'corecode' Schubert wrote: > On Tue, 20 Aug 2002 08:43:20 +0200 Mark Santcroos wrote: > > > > if i prevent acpi from being loaded on boot time (don't know the right > > > procedure, just `set module_path=/' in /boot/loader) fdc is detected > > > correctly. > > put: > > exec="unset acpi_load" > > in your /boot/loader.conf > > ah, thanks. still that doesn't solve the root of the problem :) Indeed, I got myself a Dell C640, an ACPI only laptop. It works far from ideal and I'm working on that now. But it is nice to have some intermediate workaround. Mark -- Mark Santcroos RIPE Network Coordination Centre http://www.ripe.net/home/mark/ New Projects Group/TTM To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message