Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2008 22:33:02 +1100 (EST) From: Ian Smith <smithi@nimnet.asn.au> To: Garrett Cooper <yanefbsd@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org Subject: Re: shutdown does not power down Message-ID: <20081211213129.S84425@sola.nimnet.asn.au> In-Reply-To: <7d6fde3d0812110107k71b19c94g2b80bba0b90cc47d@mail.gmail.com> References: <493FEC84.10705@root.org> <861568.47553.qm@web57008.mail.re3.yahoo.com> <7d6fde3d0812110107k71b19c94g2b80bba0b90cc47d@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, 11 Dec 2008, Garrett Cooper wrote: > On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 11:14 PM, Unga <unga888@yahoo.com> wrote: > > --- On Thu, 12/11/08, Nate Lawson <nate@root.org> wrote: [..] > >> Just post the output of dmesg after booting. > > Below is the dmesg verbose output. Apart from loading acpi.ko straight after kernel, there's not a whiff of detecting - or failing to detect - acpi at all that I could spot. > > I earlier wrote that "sysctl -a | grep acpi" shows lot of lines, > > that's because I manually created the /dev/acpi node before booting. I don't understand this at all. I thought it was created by acpi (via devd?) on detecting the ACPI BIOS and having a rewarding chat with it? > > Since it's get hidden after mount the devfs and cannot unhide, I > > removed it. Now "sysctl -a | grep acpi" is empty. > > > > Please let me know if you need further information. I really want > > to understand what causing that /dev/acpi does not created. Looks just like what you might expect to see choosing to boot without acpi, except that it shows loading the module. Unga, what's in your /boot/loader.conf ? > [ snip ] > > Have you tried compiling ACPI into the kernel? I do that at least and > it works for me. Me too, but isn't that supposed not to matter nowadays? Or does that apply only to some modules, and perhaps not acpi? (genuine question) > I noticed that no one asked what kind of hardware you have. Or whether its BIOS is right up to date .. cheers, Ian
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