From owner-freebsd-current Fri Feb 2 3:19:32 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from citadel.cequrux.com (citadel.cequrux.com [192.96.22.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7CAFA37B401 for ; Fri, 2 Feb 2001 03:19:12 -0800 (PST) Received: (from root@localhost) by citadel.cequrux.com (8.8.8/8.6.9) id NAA25548 for ; Fri, 2 Feb 2001 13:18:58 +0200 (SAST) Received: by citadel.cequrux.com via recvmail id 25546; Fri Feb 2 13:18:27 2001 Message-ID: <3A7A7F59.5785FCEF@cequrux.com> Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2001 11:35:21 +0200 From: Graham Wheeler Organization: Cequrux Technologies X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.0.36 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: /boot/device.hints file Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi all I just cvsupped to FreeBSD-current yesterday, after running stable for quite a while, mostly because I'd like to try the ACPI support in the hope that I will extend the battery life on my laptop. When trying to compile the kernel, I get an error saying I should install a /boot/device.hints file first. I don't see anything in the manpages or archives about this. Can someone please enlighten me as to what this file should be? TIA gram -- Dr Graham Wheeler E-mail: gram@cequrux.com Director, Research and Development WWW: http://www.cequrux.com CEQURUX Technologies Phone: +27(21)423-6065 Firewalls/VPN Specialists Fax: +27(21)424-3656 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message