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In message: <20030701164231.M88547@root.org>
            Nate Lawson <nate@root.org> writes:
: On Wed, 2 Jul 2003, Florian Smeets wrote:
: > I set hw.acpi.ec.burst_mode=0 in loader.conf but when i was trying to
: > chek if it was set to 0 with sysctl hw.acpi.ec.burst_mode i got :
: >
: > flo@lappi [~] 15 #sysctl hw.acpi.ec.burst_mode
: > sysctl: unknown oid 'hw.acpi.ec.burst_mode'
: 
: It's a tunable, not a sysctl.  So you can only set it in loader.conf.  Are
: there any messages when you boot with that in your loader.conf?  Would you
: please post a separate dmesg for that case?

I personally think that all tunable should be read-only (or rw if
possible) sysctls...

Warner