From owner-freebsd-acpi@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 10 18:07:13 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F158D16A401 for ; Tue, 10 Apr 2007 18:07:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nate@root.org) Received: from root.org (root.org [67.118.192.226]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BFFB013C4C3 for ; Tue, 10 Apr 2007 18:07:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nate@root.org) Received: (qmail 8671 invoked from network); 10 Apr 2007 18:02:46 -0000 Received: from ppp-71-139-28-99.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net (HELO ?10.0.0.235?) (nate-mail@71.139.28.99) by root.org with ESMTPA; 10 Apr 2007 18:02:46 -0000 Message-ID: <461BD13F.5030205@root.org> Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2007 11:02:39 -0700 From: Nate Lawson User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (X11/20061027) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: John Baldwin References: <1f5e0ccb0704052343p13c2897bt478faad64c57272f@mail.gmail.com> <200704101222.41414.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <200704101222.41414.jhb@freebsd.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org, Ilmars Virpa Subject: Re: PC randomly freezes after 4.x upgrade to 6.x. How to disable acpi completely? X-BeenThere: freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: ACPI and power management development List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2007 18:07:14 -0000 John Baldwin wrote: > On Friday 06 April 2007 02:43, Ilmars Virpa wrote: >> Hello! >> >> I upgraded my customer's FreeBSD from 4.x to 6.x series, but now the >> PC ranodmly freezes (at least once in 24h) and needless to say >> customer is very angry. I guess it could be related to ACPI (because >> I've changed almost every part of hardware) so I want to disable it, >> but how? >> >> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/acpi-overview.html >> says: >> "ACPI can be disabled with the acpiconf(8) utility." >> But I somehow don't see any option in acpiconf(8) how to disable ACPI. >> >> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/acpi-debug.html says: >> "hint.apic.0.disabled="1" in loader.conf." > > That disables APIC. To disable ACPI use 'hint.acpi.0.disabled=1' > I've updated the handbook to be less misleading. In any case, the man page (man 4 acpi) is the definitive source for information, including how to disable acpi. -- Nate