From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jun 17 04:25:24 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 7543416A479 for ; Sat, 17 Jun 2006 04:25:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from micahjon@ywave.com) Received: from relay0.av-mx.com (relay0.av-mx.com [137.118.16.125]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F0C8343D46 for ; Sat, 17 Jun 2006 04:25:23 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from micahjon@ywave.com) X-Virus-Scan-Time: 0 Received: from [137.118.16.62] (HELO mx1.av-mx.com) by relay0.av-mx.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.2.10) with SMTP id 300992979 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 17 Jun 2006 00:25:20 -0400 Received: (qmail 2013 invoked from network); 17 Jun 2006 04:25:20 -0000 Received: from dsl30019.ywave.com (HELO ?192.168.1.65?) (micahjon@ywave.com@216.227.117.19) by 0 with SMTP; 17 Jun 2006 04:25:20 -0000 X-CLIENT-IP: 216.227.117.19 X-CLIENT-HOST: dsl30019.ywave.com Message-ID: <4493842E.50507@ywave.com> Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2006 21:25:18 -0700 From: Micah User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (X11/20060611) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jonathan Horne References: <44125.167.246.36.14.1150464410.squirrel@mail.dfwlp.com> <53137.24.1.139.244.1150499368.squirrel@mail.dfwlp.com> <8F95D008-1650-4EA1-AEBB-F2C6863BCC07@shire.net> <55254.24.1.139.244.1150514984.squirrel@mail.dfwlp.com> In-Reply-To: <55254.24.1.139.244.1150514984.squirrel@mail.dfwlp.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: freebsd on a newer pc 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: Sat, 17 Jun 2006 04:25:24 -0000 Jonathan Horne wrote: >> On Jun 16, 2006, at 5:09 PM, Jonathan Horne wrote: >>> well, i figured out that if at the boot selection screen, if i choose >>> option 2 "boot with acpi enabled", i can then give 'shutdown -p >>> now' and >>> the system will then power off properly. easy enough... >>> >>> but how do i set option 2 as my default boot selection? i dont see >>> anything about this in the handbook. >> >> My experience has been that once you boot that way once it becomes >> the default. Play around with it >> >> Chad >> >> --- >> Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC >> Your Web App and Email hosting provider >> chad at shire.net >> >> >> > > i dont think thats the behavior im getting. when i hit 2 to boot: > > athena# kldstat > Id Refs Address Size Name > 1 3 0xc0400000 6ab778 kernel > 2 1 0xc0aac000 59960 acpi.ko > athena# uname -a > FreeBSD athena.int.dfwlp.com 6.1-STABLE FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE #0: Fri Jun 16 > 20:48:52 CDT 2006 > root@athena.int.dfwlp.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/ATHENA i386 > > and when i dont: > athena# kldstat > Id Refs Address Size Name > 1 1 0xc0400000 6ab778 kernel > > when i want to boot the acpi support, i hit 2. is that the proper way, or > is there some other way that resets this mode as default? > > thanks, > jonathan Last I read FreeBSD defaults ACPI off for systems that have "broken" ACPI, and defaults on for systems that have "working" ACPI. If you're sure your ACPI works without any problems add acpi_load="YES" to your loader.conf. (that might not be the "correct" solution, but it should work). HTH, Micah