From owner-freebsd-current Tue Jan 14 12:53:35 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 96F5337B401 for ; Tue, 14 Jan 2003 12:53:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from troutmask.apl.washington.edu (troutmask.apl.washington.edu [128.208.78.105]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA5A043EB2 for ; Tue, 14 Jan 2003 12:53:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu) Received: from troutmask.apl.washington.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by troutmask.apl.washington.edu (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h0EKrWDk005776; Tue, 14 Jan 2003 12:53:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu) Received: (from sgk@localhost) by troutmask.apl.washington.edu (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id h0EKrWPP005775; Tue, 14 Jan 2003 12:53:32 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 12:53:32 -0800 From: Steve Kargl To: Nate Lawson Cc: Francis Barnhart , FreeBSD current users Subject: Re: disabling ACPI in default install [was: Problem with RC3] Message-ID: <20030114205332.GA5746@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> References: <20030114204058.27383.qmail@webmail.speakeasy.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i 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, Jan 14, 2003 at 12:48:47PM -0800, Nate Lawson wrote: > 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: ^^^ d > > > > - 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 -- Steve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message