From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 18 00:05:57 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AAAC237B401 for ; Fri, 18 Jul 2003 00:05:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cs.huji.ac.il (cs.huji.ac.il [132.65.16.30]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D76143F3F for ; Fri, 18 Jul 2003 00:05:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from danny@cs.huji.ac.il) Received: from pampa.cs.huji.ac.il ([132.65.80.32] ident=danny) by cs.huji.ac.il with esmtp id 19dPJS-000D1z-00; Fri, 18 Jul 2003 10:05:54 +0300 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.6.3 04/04/2003 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Nate Lawson In-reply-to: Your message of Thu, 17 Jul 2003 10:09:23 -0700 (PDT) . Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2003 10:05:54 +0300 From: Danny Braniss Message-Id: cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ACPI problem? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2003 07:05:57 -0000 > On Thu, 17 Jul 2003, Danny Braniss wrote: > > > Your asl seems bogus since there are a lot of unexpected values (i.e. for > > > TZ and EC port values). Since it worked in 4.8R, follow the instructions > > > for disabling ACPI. > > > > > > -Nate > > > > thanks, that did it, but now, is there anyway i can help fix this so > > acpi will work? i have several of this boxes and booting them diskless > > will be a problem. > > Try man acpi: > To disable the acpi driver completely, set the kernel environment vari- > able hint.acpi.0.disabled to 1. Some i386 machines totally fail to oper- > ate with some or all of ACPI disabled. Other i386 machines fail with > ACPI enabled. Non-i386 platforms do not support operating systems which > do not use ACPI. Disabling all or part of ACPI on non-i386 platforms may > result in a non-functional system. > > Hints can go in /boot/loader.conf. Later, after the system is working for > you, you can go back and install a new BIOS and see if that fixes the > problem with ACPI enabled. > > -Nate sorry, i guess i was not clear, i did 'unset acpi_load', and got the system up, i was offering to help in fixing the acpi (actually debugging, since my head hurts from reading the acpi stuff :-) thanks, danny