Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Tue, 23 May 2006 14:29:09 +0300
From:      Yousef Raffah <yraffah@savola.com>
To:        Ian Smith <smithi@nimnet.asn.au>
Cc:        Norberto Meijome <freebsd@meijome.net>, freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD 6 on Toshiba Tecra A4
Message-ID:  <1148383749.24157.15.camel@localhost.savola.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.1060523202205.6317D-100000@gaia.nimnet.asn.au>
References:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.1060523202205.6317D-100000@gaia.nimnet.asn.au>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help

--=-I1v/1bQc9XedHxqwQJ/L
Content-Type: text/plain
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

On Tue, 2006-05-23 at 20:39 +1000, Ian Smith wrote:
> On Mon, 22 May 2006, Norberto Meijome wrote:
>=20
>  > Yousef Raffah <yraffah@savola.com> wrote:
>  > > How can I have /dev/apm?
>  >=20
>  > [...]
>  > Ian is right, but u may want to disable acpi too:
>  > /boot/device.hints:
>  >=20
>  > #FOR ACPI
>  > ### APM vs ACPI
>  > hint.apm.0.disabled=3D"1"
>  > hint.acpi.0.disabled=3D"0"
>  >=20
>  > #FOR APM
>  > ### APM vs ACPI
>  > hint.apm.0.disabled=3D"0"
>  > hint.acpi.0.disabled=3D"1"
>=20
> Before posting I'd grep'd /boot/device.hints for acpi - none in 5.4-R -
> so was going to suggest trying booting w/out ACPI from the loader menu,
> but wasn't sure that was still in 6.x ..
>=20
There wasn't any by default, I had to add it as Norberto suggested to
insure I have acpi disabled.

>  > (of course, the rest of the lines in device.hits shouldn't need to be =
changed.
>=20
> Perhaps preferable to add any hint updates to /boot/loader.conf instead?
>=20
I have commented out all my hints in /boot/loader.conf, which means I
only have the /boot/device.hints now (which has the above acpi and apm
lines)

> Hopefully Yousef's A4 (eventually) will do APM as well as your A2 ..
>=20
I really hope so :(

> cheers, Ian
>=20

--
Sincerely,
Yousef Raffah
Senior Systems Administrator
--

Aren't you using Firefox? Get it at http://www.getfirefox.com



--=-I1v/1bQc9XedHxqwQJ/L
Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc
Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (FreeBSD)

iD8DBQBEcvIFH9IXMb4e6CMRAhgjAKCY29PvzPl/c124eLEyW6+zcxybZwCgiesr
A8hlobk4XFOWBzrHqzh/ttI=
=aIbG
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

--=-I1v/1bQc9XedHxqwQJ/L--




Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?1148383749.24157.15.camel>