Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Thu, 17 Jul 2003 10:09:23 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Nate Lawson <nate@root.org>
To:        Danny Braniss <danny@cs.huji.ac.il>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ACPI problem? 
Message-ID:  <20030717100629.U24177@root.org>
In-Reply-To: <E19d2H7-000AXI-00@cs.huji.ac.il>
References:  <E19d2H7-000AXI-00@cs.huji.ac.il>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Thu, 17 Jul 2003, Danny Braniss wrote:
> > Your asl seems bogus since there are a lot of unexpected values (i.e. for
> > TZ and EC port values).  Since it worked in 4.8R, follow the instructions
> > for disabling ACPI.
> >
> > -Nate
>
> thanks, that did it, but now, is there anyway i can help fix this so
> acpi will work? i have several of this boxes and booting them diskless
> will be a problem.

Try man acpi:
     To disable the acpi driver completely, set the kernel environment vari-
     able hint.acpi.0.disabled to 1.  Some i386 machines totally fail to oper-
     ate with some or all of ACPI disabled.  Other i386 machines fail with
     ACPI enabled.  Non-i386 platforms do not support operating systems which
     do not use ACPI.  Disabling all or part of ACPI on non-i386 platforms may
     result in a non-functional system.

Hints can go in /boot/loader.conf.  Later, after the system is working for
you, you can go back and install a new BIOS and see if that fixes the
problem with ACPI enabled.

-Nate



Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20030717100629.U24177>