From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 17 17:21:55 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CCE8A16A41F for ; Tue, 17 Jan 2006 17:21:55 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from crispy.beef@ntlworld.com) Received: from mta09-winn.ispmail.ntl.com (mta09-winn.ispmail.ntl.com [81.103.221.49]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1896243D45 for ; Tue, 17 Jan 2006 17:21:54 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from crispy.beef@ntlworld.com) Received: from aamta11-winn.ispmail.ntl.com ([81.103.221.35]) by mta09-winn.ispmail.ntl.com with ESMTP id <20060117172154.MUFN6790.mta09-winn.ispmail.ntl.com@aamta11-winn.ispmail.ntl.com>; Tue, 17 Jan 2006 17:21:54 +0000 Received: from [192.168.0.2] (really [82.12.81.129]) by aamta11-winn.ispmail.ntl.com with ESMTP id <20060117172153.VNOF19063.aamta11-winn.ispmail.ntl.com@[192.168.0.2]>; Tue, 17 Jan 2006 17:21:53 +0000 Message-ID: <43CD27AF.9050808@ntlworld.com> Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 17:21:51 +0000 From: Crispy Beef User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (X11/20051017) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Fabian Keil References: <43CD1AD2.2090005@ntlworld.com> <20060117180004.5d4c7f1e@localhost> In-Reply-To: <20060117180004.5d4c7f1e@localhost> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Boot with ACPI X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 17:21:55 -0000 >>When I boot my laptop running 6.0-RELEASE I need to boot with ACPI as >>otherwise it crashes. Was wondering how to make booting with ACPI >>the default? >> >>To be honest I'm not bothered about the boot menu at all as I'm quite >>happy with the system booting without any interaction. Sometimes I >>need to reboot remotely which isn't possible at the moment. I've >>read a bit about loader.conf and have used it for various things, is >>it as easy as putting a line in there to get this working? > > > If ACPI isn't enabled on your system by default it means your system > is blacklisted. > > To overwrite the blacklist you can set hint.acpi.0.disabled to 0 > in /boot/loader.conf. See man acpi for more ACPI tunables. > > If your system works with ACPI, you probably should file an PR. This is kind of what I thought after reading the acpi man page. I entered the following into the /boot/loader.conf file: hint.acpi.0.disabled="0" Still no luck though, the default option on the loader menu boots without ACPI. When hitting the second option you see ACPI being enabled i.e. /boot/kernel/acpi.ko being loaded. This doesn't happen with option 1 even with the above in my loader.conf file. :-/ Somebody else on this list mentioned the i440BX chipset being a bit flakey with ACPI which is why it might not be enabled by default, but with ACPI it seems to work nice enough for everyday use, fans go on and off, system shuts down nicely etc. The only reference to my chipset I can find on the blacklist is this: INTEL - 440BX (Seattle 2) - 0x00001000 (old) <= Field beyond end of region It's listed as non-critical.