Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 18:15:29 +0200 From: Joseph Borg <juu.borg@gmail.com> To: "'Roland Smith'" <rsmith@xs4all.nl>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Cc: 'Joseph Borg' <juu.borg@gmail.com> Subject: RE: FreeBSD on AMD 64 Boot Lock Up - ACPI Related Message-ID: <4280de25.1fac9c4b.2290.ffffc9fe@mx.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20050508214224.GA24749@slackbox.xs4all.nl>
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First of all, please to not top-post. It disturbs the normal flow of reading. But to answer your question, if your PC's devices are all correctly working with FreeBSD drivers and if you don't use power management I see no great need for ACPI. Laptops might need the power management component of ACPI. Some motherboards use ACPI to let you read out things like temperatures and fan speeds. But those can mostly also be discovered by other programs. Sorry for top-posting. Will remember not to do it again. Thanks for all your help. So far the system seems fine with ACPI disabled. Thanks, Joe
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