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Date:      Sun, 14 Oct 2007 20:38:00 -0500
From:      CyberLeo Kitsana <cyberleo@cyberleo.net>
To:        Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: ECC capability and ACPI warnings
Message-ID:  <4712C478.9060204@cyberleo.net>
In-Reply-To: <7087D6A3-7FEE-481B-921F-0C9B04865DA5@mac.com>
References:  <470F2841.7090205@cyberleo.net> <7087D6A3-7FEE-481B-921F-0C9B04865DA5@mac.com>

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Chuck Swiger wrote:
> On Oct 12, 2007, at 12:54 AM, CyberLeo Kitsana wrote:
>> Is there any way, by poking through dmesg or sysctls, to determine if a
>> machine has, or is capable of using, ECC RAM?
>
> Well, the sysutils/dmidecode port can be used to answer that question:

That tells me exactly what I needed. Thanks!

>> Also, is there an easy way to silence the following warnings in dmesg?
>> They all appear to be about the serial and parallel ports, which, as far
>> as I know, the machine does have. They may not be enabled in the BIOS,
>> however.
> 
> I think those messages only appear if you do a verbose boot...?

As far as I can tell, it wasn't booted in verbose mode. I'll verify next
time I reboot the machine, though.

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