From bright@mu.org Tue Sep 25 10:04:21 2001
Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 10:04:21 -0500
From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org>
To: imp@village.org
Subject: (forw) Re: how to make acpi go away.
Message-ID: <20010925100421.Y97903@elvis.mu.org>
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Here's that second entry for updating.

"If acpi doesn't work for you. (mouse/sound not working)

----- Forwarded message from Donny Lee <donny@CoreBit.com> -----

From: Donny Lee <donny@CoreBit.com>
To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org>
Cc: current@freebsd.org, msmith@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: how to make acpi go away.
Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 16:40:45 +0800
Message-ID: <3BB0430D.7267A8EC@CoreBit.com>
X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U)

Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> Can someone please share with us the magic to disable acpi and add
> it to src/UPDATING, my sound fell victim to acpi and i think I just
> lost my mouse to it.  Now I have a lapbrick that consumes less
> power...

  try adding a line

    hint.acpi.0.disable="1"

  to /boot/device.hints, or disable it at boot time

    unset acpi_load
    
  then boot as usual.

-- 
// Donny

----- End forwarded message -----

-- 
-Alfred Perlstein [alfred@freebsd.org]
'Instead of asking why a piece of software is using "1970s technology,"
start asking why software is ignoring 30 years of accumulated wisdom.'


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