Date: Fri, 1 Jan 2010 14:38:01 +0000 From: Frank Shute <frank@shute.org.uk> To: Manish Jain <invalid.pointer@gmail.com> Cc: rsmith@xs4all.nl, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Need help configuring upsd, sound and logo saver on freebsd 8.0 Message-ID: <20100101143801.GA56771@orange.esperance-linux.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <4B3DDCDE.4040205@gmail.com> References: <4B3DDCDE.4040205@gmail.com>
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On Fri, Jan 01, 2010 at 05:00:38PM +0530, Manish Jain wrote:
>
>
> Hello All,
>
> I recently installed FreeBSD 8.0 on my amd64 system attached to an APC
> UPS via USB and a RealTek HDA onboard soundcard. I chose 'logo' as the
> screensaver during installation, and put snd_hda_load="YES" in
> /boot/loader.conf and upsd_enable="YES" in /etc/rc.conf.
>
> On booting, the sound driver gets loaded successfully and the APC UPS is
> also detected (although there is no mention of the UPS in the output of
> dmesg). I have the following problems :
>
> 1) There is no sound. AFAIK, there is a sysctl parameter to be tuned for
> setting the correct audio channel (in my case hdac1), but I have
> forgotten the parameter name. Can someone please remind me ?
hw.snd.default_unit=1
in /etc/sysctl.conf ?
>
> 2) upsd complains of inappropriate ioctl no matter which USB device node
> I set in /usr/local/etc/upsd.conf. How can I set the device name
> correctly so that the OS can shut itself down properly on extended power
> failure ?
Have you tried sysutils/apcupsd. It's designed to work with APC upses.
Fairly easy to install & configure.
>
> 3) For my console saver ('logo'), I get the following error message at
> boot-time :
>
> module_register_init: MOD_LOAD (logo_saver, 0xffffffff81044010, 0) error 19
>
>
> Happy New Year and Thanks for any help
> Manish Jain
Regards,
--
Frank
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