From owner-freebsd-current Tue Sep 25 13:54:27 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mail.wrs.com (unknown-1-11.windriver.com [147.11.1.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A31D37B413 for ; Tue, 25 Sep 2001 13:54:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from laptop.baldwin.cx ([147.11.46.209]) by mail.wrs.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id NAA18609; Tue, 25 Sep 2001 13:53:48 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <3BB06A45.13C442D1@elischer.org> Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 13:53:33 -0700 (PDT) From: John Baldwin To: Julian Elischer Subject: Re: how to make acpi go away. Cc: current@FreeBSD.org, Donny Lee 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 On 25-Sep-01 Julian Elischer wrote: > >> 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. The Inspiron needs this line in loader.conf: debug.acpi.avoid="_SB_.PCI0.PX40.SIO_" Then it will probably work. My Inspiron 5000e needs this. -- John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message