From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 15 01:38:10 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5671616A46C for ; Mon, 15 Oct 2007 01:38:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cyberleo@cyberleo.net) Received: from pizzabox.cyberleo.net (alpha.cyberleo.net [198.145.45.10]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E37AB13C465 for ; Mon, 15 Oct 2007 01:38:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cyberleo@cyberleo.net) Received: (qmail 14603 invoked from network); 15 Oct 2007 01:38:08 -0000 Received: from adsl-75-3-116-182.dsl.chcgil.sbcglobal.net (HELO ?172.16.44.14?) (cyberleo@cyberleo.net@75.3.116.182) by alpha.cyberleo.net with ESMTPA; 15 Oct 2007 01:38:08 -0000 Message-ID: <4712C478.9060204@cyberleo.net> Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2007 20:38:00 -0500 From: CyberLeo Kitsana User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (X11/20070819) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Chuck Swiger References: <470F2841.7090205@cyberleo.net> <7087D6A3-7FEE-481B-921F-0C9B04865DA5@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <7087D6A3-7FEE-481B-921F-0C9B04865DA5@mac.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: ECC capability and ACPI warnings X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 01:38:10 -0000 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. -- Fuzzy love, -CyberLeo Technical Administrator CyberLeo.Net Webhosting http://www.CyberLeo.Net Furry Peace! - http://wwww.fur.com/peace/