From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 14 07:27:42 2004 Return-Path: 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 8F48716A4CE for ; Thu, 14 Oct 2004 07:27:42 +0000 (GMT) Received: from outmx010.isp.belgacom.be (outmx010.isp.belgacom.be [195.238.3.233]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD0DE43D2F for ; Thu, 14 Oct 2004 07:27:41 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from geert@lori.mine.nu) Received: from outmx010.isp.belgacom.be (localhost [127.0.0.1]) with ESMTP id i9E7Rdav029444 for ; Thu, 14 Oct 2004 09:27:40 +0200 (envelope-from ) Received: from lori.mine.nu (67-20.244.81.adsl.skynet.be [81.244.20.67]) with ESMTP id i9E7RWpP029394; Thu, 14 Oct 2004 09:27:32 +0200 (envelope-from ) Received: by lori.mine.nu (Postfix, from userid 1000) id E23926F1; Thu, 14 Oct 2004 09:27:31 +0200 (CEST) Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 09:27:31 +0200 From: Geert Hendrickx To: Subhro Message-ID: <20041014072731.GA31155@lori.mine.nu> References: <20041013175012.GA23062@lori.mine.nu> <20041014043925.34640.qmail@web52101.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2i X-GPG-Key: http://lori.mine.nu/gnupgkey.asc X-GPG-Key-ID: 1024D/766C1E92 X-Accept-Language: nl,en cc: questions@freebsd.org cc: rchopra@cal.berkeley.edu Subject: Re: Shutdown And User Intervention X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 07:27:42 -0000 On Thu, Oct 14, 2004 at 12:47:59PM +0530, Subhro wrote: > On Wed, 13 Oct 2004 21:39:25 -0700 (PDT), Rishi Chopra > wrote: > > > Thanks to Mick, Andreas, Geert and Dee for their > > suggestions. > > > > I tried adding the suggested line (I'm running 5.2.1) > > but the response is: > > > > config: Error: device "acpica" is unknown > > config: 1 errors > > > > Do I need to be running a special kernel to enable > > acpica? Is there any other way to enable ACPI? Will > > I have to start a daemon after compiling the kernel to > > enable ACPI? > > There are two ways to do it. One of them is to add the line device > acpi to the kernel config and recompile the kernel. The second option > is to load acpi as a module. > kldload acpi.ko > > Alternatively you can put acpi_enable="YES" in /boot/loader.conf to > automate the process. And there is no daemon like apmd for acpi. It is > a KLM. > > Regards > S. Ok, so apparantly this is a difference between 4.x and 5.x. In 4.x, there is no LKM for this, and the line to add is indeed device acpica. Sorry from a 4.x-junkie ;-) GH -- :wq