Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2006 08:47:12 -0500 From: Jonathan Horne <jhorne@dfwlp.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: freebsd on a newer pc Message-ID: <200606180847.13010.jhorne@dfwlp.com> In-Reply-To: <4493842E.50507@ywave.com> References: <44125.167.246.36.14.1150464410.squirrel@mail.dfwlp.com> <55254.24.1.139.244.1150514984.squirrel@mail.dfwlp.com> <4493842E.50507@ywave.com>
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On Friday 16 June 2006 23:25, Micah wrote: > Jonathan Horne wrote: > >> On Jun 16, 2006, at 5:09 PM, Jonathan Horne wrote: > >>> well, i figured out that if at the boot selection screen, if i choose > >>> option 2 "boot with acpi enabled", i can then give 'shutdown -p > >>> now' and > >>> the system will then power off properly. easy enough... > >>> > >>> but how do i set option 2 as my default boot selection? i dont see > >>> anything about this in the handbook. > >> > >> My experience has been that once you boot that way once it becomes > >> the default. Play around with it > >> > >> Chad > >> > >> --- > >> Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC > >> Your Web App and Email hosting provider > >> chad at shire.net > > > > i dont think thats the behavior im getting. when i hit 2 to boot: > > > > athena# kldstat > > Id Refs Address Size Name > > 1 3 0xc0400000 6ab778 kernel > > 2 1 0xc0aac000 59960 acpi.ko > > athena# uname -a > > FreeBSD athena.int.dfwlp.com 6.1-STABLE FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE #0: Fri Jun 16 > > 20:48:52 CDT 2006 > > root@athena.int.dfwlp.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/ATHENA i386 > > > > and when i dont: > > athena# kldstat > > Id Refs Address Size Name > > 1 1 0xc0400000 6ab778 kernel > > > > when i want to boot the acpi support, i hit 2. is that the proper way, > > or is there some other way that resets this mode as default? > > > > thanks, > > jonathan > > Last I read FreeBSD defaults ACPI off for systems that have "broken" > ACPI, and defaults on for systems that have "working" ACPI. If you're > sure your ACPI works without any problems add acpi_load="YES" to your > loader.conf. (that might not be the "correct" solution, but it should > work). > > HTH, > Micah > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" well, its finally working!! i could have swore this was the first thing i tried, as loader.conf was the first area i researched, but when i added acpi_load="YES" to loader.conf, my system now boots with acpi enabled (and i can now properly poweroff with shutdown -p now). i must have typed or something, because that was the first thing i mentally marked as "ok, that didnt work". im so excited to have my system functioning correcetly now, as my old system was a 1.8GHz athlong, and this is a 3.2GHz p4. xorg/KDE compile time is down from 36 hours to less than 24!! cheers, jonathan
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