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Date:      Thu, 17 Oct 2002 08:58:51 -0400 (EDT)
From:      John Bleichert <syborg@stny.rr.com>
To:        Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: A curious dmesg output entry
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.4.44.0210170856020.17343-100000@janeway.vonbek.dhs.org>
In-Reply-To: <20021017121048.GD88261@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi>

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On Thu, 17 Oct 2002, Matthew Seaman wrote:

> Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2002 13:10:48 +0100
> From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk>
> On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 06:05:15PM -0700, Wayne Lubin wrote:
> 
> > So does that means that this ACPI Power Management
> > Controller is not supported by freebsd? Or does it
> > mean that I need to compile the corresponding device
> > driver into the kernel and then it will be
> > recognized by freebsd?
> 
> > > --- "Brian M. Kincaid"
> > > <bmk@adsl-64-174-159-18.dsl.sntc01.pacbell.net>
> > > wrote:
> 
> > > > Chip Number: VT82C686A
> > > > Description: ACPI Power Management Controller
> 
> That's a supported chipset:
> 
>     happy-idiot-talk:~:% grep viapm /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/LINT
>     # viapm         VIA VT82C586B,596,686A and VT8233 SMBus controllers
>     device          viapm
> 
> You need to add:
> 
>     device		smbus
>     device		viapm
>     device		smb
> 

Where did you get 'viapm' from? Are *all* the possibilities documented 
somewhere? Is there a central resource for all the possible kernel 
config entries ? After seeing your post I found the 
viapm(4) man page but I never would have known about it otherwise.

I'll try it when I get home!

> to your kernel config, and build yourself a new kernel.  Works fine
> for my VT8233 SMBus controller.
> 
> 	Cheers,
> 
> 	Matthew
> 

Thanks - JB

#  John Bleichert 
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