From owner-freebsd-current Tue Sep 25 8: 4:54 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from elvis.mu.org (elvis.mu.org [216.33.66.196]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 40CF737B401; Tue, 25 Sep 2001 08:04:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: by elvis.mu.org (Postfix, from userid 1192) id ED65081D05; Tue, 25 Sep 2001 10:04:45 -0500 (CDT) Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 10:04:45 -0500 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Donny Lee Cc: current@freebsd.org, msmith@freebsd.org Subject: Re: how to make acpi go away. Message-ID: <20010925100445.Z97903@elvis.mu.org> References: <20010925014406.V97903@elvis.mu.org> <3BB0430D.7267A8EC@CoreBit.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3BB0430D.7267A8EC@CoreBit.com>; from donny@CoreBit.com on Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 04:40:45PM +0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Donny Lee [010925 03:40] 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" > > to /boot/device.hints, or disable it at boot time > > unset acpi_load > > then boot as usual. Thank you, that fixed everything. -- -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.' To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message