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From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
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To: Donny Lee <donny@CoreBit.com>, current@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: how to make acpi go away.
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> Donny Lee wrote:
> >
> > 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"
 ahhhhhh
> 
> >
> >   to /boot/device.hints, or disable it at boot time
> >
> >     unset acpi_load

 I only found this out today when my Dell inspiron7500
refused to boot past the ACPI message..
 Surprised me a bit as Mike has one of these.

 
> >
> >   then boot as usual.
> >
> > --
> > // Donny

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