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From: Donny Lee <donny@CoreBit.com>
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To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org>
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Subject: Re: how to make acpi go away.
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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

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