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Date:      Sun, 17 Dec 2006 13:28:16 -0800
From:      Nate Lawson <nate@root.org>
To:        Bruno Ducrot <ducrot@poupinou.org>
Cc:        freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org, Erik Mossberg <omikjam@gmail.com>
Subject:   Re: ACPI thermal polling on Abit AW8
Message-ID:  <4585B670.9060406@root.org>
In-Reply-To: <20061217143146.GP4945@poupinou.org>
References:  <129bb9070612152229n154c3389y73fea0583ed548fd@mail.gmail.com> <20061217143146.GP4945@poupinou.org>

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Bruno Ducrot wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 16, 2006 at 07:29:50AM +0100, Erik Mossberg wrote:
>> I'm getting spammed with an ACPI error message, which seems to be related to
>> thermal polling, this problem both occurs in 6.2-RC1 (generic) and
>> 7.0-CURRENT (15 dec). Seems it has been reported some time ago;
>> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-bugs/2006-August/019794.html
>>
>> My "workaround" so far to this is that i've set
>> hw.acpi.thermal.polling_rateto some really high value (46800), to
>> avoid the spam-age. Anyone know any
>> better way around it? (apart from disabling ACPI)
> 
> Yes.  Put
> hint.acpi.disabled="thermal"
> in your /boot/loader.conf
> 

That's actually:

debug.acpi.disabled="thermal"

Of course, all this is found in the man page, see "DISABLING ACPI":
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=acpi&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=FreeBSD+7-current&format=html

-- 
Nate



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