From owner-freebsd-current Thu Sep 27 23:50:35 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mail6.speakeasy.net (mail6.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.206]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E7A3437B40D for ; Thu, 27 Sep 2001 23:50:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 12477 invoked from network); 28 Sep 2001 06:50:29 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO laptop.baldwin.cx) ([64.81.54.73]) (envelope-sender ) by mail6.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 28 Sep 2001 06:50:29 -0000 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <200109280343.f8S3hp778339@harmony.village.org> Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2001 23:50:12 -0700 (PDT) From: John Baldwin To: Warner Losh Subject: Re: how to make acpi go away. Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG, Donny Lee , Julian Elischer , Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 28-Sep-01 Warner Losh wrote: > In message <200109270310.f8R3Asm06567@mass.dis.org> Mike Smith writes: >: > > > I only found this out today when my Dell inspiron7500 >: > > > refused to boot past the ACPI message.. >: > > > Surprised me a bit as Mike has one of these. >: > > >: > > There's a well-documented and necessary hack to work on these >: > > machines; the actual nature of the problem still escapes me (debugging >: > > it is very time-consuming). >: > > >: > > debug.acpi.avoid="_SB_.PCI0.PX40.SIO_" >: > > >: > > in /boot/device.hints. >: > >: > that would be in loader.conf right? >: >: It'd probably work there as well, but I've always done it in >: device.hints. > > It does work in loader.conf... Both files are parsed identically by the boot-conf "function". You could stick your hints in loader.conf if you wanted to, or stick 'console="comconsole' in device.hints if you wanted to. Their content is determined more by their purpose. I.e., device hints in device.hints, and loader tweaks in loader.conf. I suppose ACPI debug options relate to the kernel and not the loader, so device.hints is perhaps the more "accurate" place. > Warner -- John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message