Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 18:22:47 +0200 From: Guido Falsi <mad@madpilot.net> To: Jeffrey Goldberg <jeffrey@goldmark.org> Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org, itetcu@FreeBSD.org, Mike Stammer <mikestammer@gmail.com> Subject: Re: freebsd port: apcupsd-3.14.3_1 Message-ID: <20080430162247.GB7248@megatron.madpilot.net> In-Reply-To: <B770D9A2-EDCC-4E68-9EF9-74A52132C1BD@goldmark.org> References: <2a2e30e80804300831r78f6a3a2j634f94877d75a32@mail.gmail.com> <B770D9A2-EDCC-4E68-9EF9-74A52132C1BD@goldmark.org>
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On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 10:56:09AM -0500, Jeffrey Goldberg wrote: > On Apr 30, 2008, at 10:31 AM, Mike Stammer wrote: > >> Last night i installed apcupsd and there was a post install message >> mentioning to comment out the following in the kernel: >> >> device uhid # "Human Interface Devices" >> >> i do not think this is necessary anymore as I, in the process of >> determining my first UPS was bad, tried a kernel both with and without >> the line above commented out. > > Are you connecting to the UPS by USB or by old-fashioned serial (RS-232)? > I suspect that that message would only apply for RS-232 connections. > > But that is just a guess on my part. Frm what I saw in the sources when I configured it, this was needed because uhid would grab the USB connected UPS, while apcupsd tries to use it through ugen. But there is a quirk in the kernel forcing uhid to ignore any APC product which fixes this problem. -- Guido Falsi <mad@madpilot.net>
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