From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 3 20:46:26 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F00337B401 for ; Tue, 3 Dec 2002 20:46:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from topher.gintera.net (topher.gintera.net [64.81.97.41]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C7E643E88 for ; Tue, 3 Dec 2002 20:46:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rbg@gayteenresource.org) Received: from topher.gintera.net (chris@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by topher.gintera.net (8.12.6/8.12.6) with SMTP id gB44knTZ079881 for ; Tue, 3 Dec 2002 21:46:49 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from rbg@gayteenresource.org) Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2002 21:46:49 -0700 From: Christopher Rosado To: FreeBSD-Questions Subject: Re: microuptime went backwards ?? Message-Id: <20021203214649.65e05160.rbg@gayteenresource.org> In-Reply-To: <1038975110.3ded8086e5dec@webmail.adam.com.au> References: <5.1.1.6.2.20021203163612.02025f98@mail.infomaniak.ch> <5.1.1.6.2.20021203163612.02025f98@mail.infomaniak.ch> <5.1.1.6.2.20021203191529.02036ed0@mail.infomaniak.ch> <1038975110.3ded8086e5dec@webmail.adam.com.au> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.6claws48 (GTK+ 1.2.10; ) X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE-p2 X-Message-Flag: 0x2b2b2b415448300d Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 4 Dec 2002 14:41:50 +1030 bastill@adam.com.au wrote: BCA> Makes no difference. As Greg Lehey explained earlier the only BCA> solution is to delete all reference to APM in your kernel config file. He did? I see no such message from him in this thread. BCA> "Disabled" means "still there but not being used". Funnily enough, commenting it out in the kernel config certainly removes APM support from the kernel... thus _disabling_ that particular feature. BCA> What we want is NOT PRESENT in any shape or form. Again, merely commenting it out of the config is sufficient, though completely removing it from the config serves the same purpose. There is no functional difference between commenting-out a feature and removing the entry aside from leaving a reminder that the feature in question was disabled; which is a good idea to do, since someone may forget that he'd disabled/removed a feature for a reason if there's no visual reminder in the config. I won't argue semantics any further though since that's just silly. All I know is that when I switched to FreeBSD last year, I ran into this problem (and lost a hard drive due to the innumerable spontaneous reboots in the process), and the only way to fix it was to disable APM in the BIOS and kernel. -- Christopher Rosado To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message