From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 2 15:08:40 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E9181065676 for ; Fri, 2 Oct 2009 15:08:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kama@pvp.se) Received: from ms1.as.pvp.se (mail.pvp.se [213.64.187.227]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0EBBA8FC16 for ; Fri, 2 Oct 2009 15:08:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ms1.as.pvp.se (Postfix, from userid 1001) id E0446B4; Fri, 2 Oct 2009 17:08:38 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ms1.as.pvp.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id DEF2CB3; Fri, 2 Oct 2009 17:08:38 +0200 (CEST) Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2009 17:08:38 +0200 (CEST) From: kama X-X-Sender: kama@ns1.as.pvp.se To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20091002165602.Q37424@ns1.as.pvp.se> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: acpi doc misconfusion... X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 02 Oct 2009 15:08:40 -0000 Hi, there are a lot of different errors in various document regarding acpi that are wrong. In 'man acpi' it says that 'hint.acpi.0.disabled' should be placed in loader.conf. ------------- LOADER TUNABLES Tunables can be set at the loader(8) prompt before booting the kernel or stored in /boot/loader.conf. Many of these tunables also have a matching sysctl(8) entry for access after boot. ... hint.acpi.0.disabled Set this to 1 to disable all of ACPI. If ACPI has been disabled on your system due to a blacklist entry for your BIOS, you can set this to 0 to re-enable ACPI for testing. ... ------------- In 'man loader' it says: ------------- acpi_load Unset this to disable automatic loading of the ACPI module. See also hint.acpi.0.disabled in device.hints(5). ------------- In 'man device.hints' ------------- The following example disables the ACPI driver: hint.acpi.0.disabled="1" ------------- http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/articles/laptop/article.html page also states that it should be in device.hints. Well, these are the ones I have found. There are a lot of misconfusion in various forums what to put where and how its done. Maybe its accurate on both places, but then that should be noted somewhere. /Bjorn