From owner-freebsd-current Tue Jan 14 14:13:32 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 20FC637B401 for ; Tue, 14 Jan 2003 14:13:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.ntplx.net (mail.ntplx.net [204.213.176.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E2A443F13 for ; Tue, 14 Jan 2003 14:13:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from franimal@speakeasy.net) Received: from speakeasy.net (dhcp-209-54-75-97.ct.dsl.ntplx.com [209.54.75.97]) by mail.ntplx.net (8.11.6/8.11.4/NETPLEX) with ESMTP id h0EMDJt16598; Tue, 14 Jan 2003 17:13:19 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3E248D80.2060804@speakeasy.net> Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 17:21:52 -0500 From: Francis Barnhart User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20030104 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Steve Kargl Cc: Nate Lawson , FreeBSD current users Subject: INSTALL.TXT ACPI Change [was: disabling ACPI in default install [was: Problem with RC3]] References: <20030114204058.27383.qmail@webmail.speakeasy.net> <20030114205332.GA5746@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <20030114204058.27383.qmail@webmail.speakeasy.net> Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------090907000502000706060207" X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS and CyberSoft VFind 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 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------090907000502000706060207 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit --- /stand/help/INSTALL.TXT Fri Jan 10 18:21:12 2003 +++ INSTALL.TXT Tue Jan 14 16:51:44 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.disabled'' 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" to the file /boot/device.hints. + More information about the boot loader can be found in the FreeBSD + Handbook. 4.2.2. My legacy ISA device used to be recognized in previous versions of FreeBSD, but now it's not. What happened? -- Francis Barnhart franimal@speakeasy.net http://francisbarnhart.com/ AIM: franimal --------------090907000502000706060207 Content-Type: text/plain; name="installdiff.txt" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline; filename="installdiff.txt" --- /stand/help/INSTALL.TXT Fri Jan 10 18:21:12 2003 +++ INSTALL.TXT Tue Jan 14 16:51:44 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.disabled'' 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" to the file /boot/device.hints. + More information about the boot loader can be found in the FreeBSD + Handbook. 4.2.2. My legacy ISA device used to be recognized in previous versions of FreeBSD, but now it's not. What happened? --------------090907000502000706060207-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message