From owner-freebsd-current Tue Jan 14 12:48:49 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 0AAD437B401 for ; Tue, 14 Jan 2003 12:48:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from rootlabs.com (root.org [67.118.192.226]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2F39443F65 for ; Tue, 14 Jan 2003 12:48:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nate@rootlabs.com) Received: (qmail 39653 invoked by uid 1000); 14 Jan 2003 20:48:47 -0000 Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 12:48:47 -0800 (PST) From: Nate Lawson To: Francis Barnhart Cc: FreeBSD current users Subject: Re: disabling ACPI in default install [was: Problem with RC3] In-Reply-To: <20030114204058.27383.qmail@webmail.speakeasy.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, Francis Barnhart wrote: > --- /stand/help/INSTALL.TXT Fri Jan 10 18:21:12 2003 > +++ INSTALL.TXT Tue Jan 14 15:34:00 2003 > @@ -891,13 +891,14 @@ > the i386 platform to aid in system configuration if it's detected during > boot. Unfortunately, some bugs still exist in both the ACPI driver and > within system motherboards and BIOS. The use of ACPI can be disabled by > - setting the ``hw.acpi.0.disable'' hint in the third stage boot loader: > + setting the ``hint.acpi.0.disable'' hint in the third stage boot loader: > > - set.hw.acpi.0.disabled=1 > + set hint.acpi.0.disabled="1" > > - This is reset each time the system is booted, so it might be necessary to > - set it permanently in the file /boot/loader.conf. More inforation about > - the boot loader can be found in the FreeBSD Handbook. > + This is reset each time the system is booted, so it is necessary to > + permanently add hint.acpi.0.disabled="1" in the file /boot/device.hints. ^^^ "to" > + More information about the boot loader can be found in the FreeBSD > + Handbook. Other than that, looks great. -Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message