From owner-freebsd-current Tue Jan 14 11:10: 4 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6BB8737B405 for ; Tue, 14 Jan 2003 11:10:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from rootlabs.com (root.org [67.118.192.226]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8539543F6B for ; Tue, 14 Jan 2003 11:10:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nate@rootlabs.com) Received: (qmail 39037 invoked by uid 1000); 14 Jan 2003 19:10:03 -0000 Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 11:10:03 -0800 (PST) From: Nate Lawson To: Kevin Oberman Cc: Francis Barnhart , FreeBSD current users Subject: Re: disabling ACPI in default install [was: Problem with RC3] In-Reply-To: <20030114181040.2BFBF5D04@ptavv.es.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 Tue, 14 Jan 2003, Kevin Oberman wrote: > > From: Francis Barnhart > > I wonder if it might be even better to disable it by > > default. Nothing turns people off like an OS that doesn't install. > > It should CERTAINLY be turned off on the install CDs and floppies! It > was VERY frustrating to boot the CD on my laptop and have it crash > after a few minutes. Kinda hard to get a crash dump, either. The issue is, ACPI is needed to route interrupts for certain computers (namely, laptops). Without it being on, many laptops could not install the OS. I personally would prefer it being off by default with a recommendation to laptop users to enable it during the install in the install notes. But before the conversation gets off topic, I want to know where acpi disabling is documented so I can point people to the doc instead of answering the same question over and over. -Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message