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To: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
Cc: Donny Lee <donny@CoreBit.com>, current@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: how to make acpi go away. 
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Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 20:10:54 -0700
From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org>
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> > >  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.
> > 
> > There's a well-documented and necessary hack to work on these
> > machines; the actual nature of the problem still escapes me (debugging
> > it is very time-consuming).
> > 
> > debug.acpi.avoid="_SB_.PCI0.PX40.SIO_"
> > 
> > in /boot/device.hints.
>
> that would be in loader.conf right?

It'd probably work there as well, but I've always done it in
device.hints.

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