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Date:      Tue, 25 Sep 2001 19:55:22 -0700
From:      Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>
To:        Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org>
Cc:        Donny Lee <donny@CoreBit.com>, current@FreeBSD.ORG, msmith@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: how to make acpi go away. 
Message-ID:  <20010926025522.EA740380A@overcee.netplex.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <20010925100445.Z97903@elvis.mu.org> 

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Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> * Donny Lee <donny@CoreBit.com> [010925 03:40] wrote:
> > Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> > > Can someone please share with us the magic to disable acpi and add
> > > it to src/UPDATING, my sound fell victim to acpi and i think I just
> > > lost my mouse to it.  Now I have a lapbrick that consumes less
> > > power...
> > 
> >   try adding a line
> > 
> >     hint.acpi.0.disable="1"
> > 
> >   to /boot/device.hints, or disable it at boot time
> > 
> >     unset acpi_load
> >     
> >   then boot as usual.
> 
> Thank you, that fixed everything.

Also, this works too:
echo "NO_MODULES=yes" >> /etc/make.conf; rm /boot/kernel/acpi.ko

:-)

Cheers,
-Peter
--
Peter Wemm - peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com; peter@netplex.com.au
"All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5


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