Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 09:27:31 +0200 From: Geert Hendrickx <geert.hendrickx@ua.ac.be> To: Subhro <subhro.kar@gmail.com> Cc: rchopra@cal.berkeley.edu Subject: Re: Shutdown And User Intervention Message-ID: <20041014072731.GA31155@lori.mine.nu> In-Reply-To: <b2807d04041014001726bc77cb@mail.gmail.com> References: <20041013175012.GA23062@lori.mine.nu> <20041014043925.34640.qmail@web52101.mail.yahoo.com> <b2807d04041014001726bc77cb@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, Oct 14, 2004 at 12:47:59PM +0530, Subhro wrote: > On Wed, 13 Oct 2004 21:39:25 -0700 (PDT), Rishi Chopra > <idfubar@yahoo.com> wrote: > > > Thanks to Mick, Andreas, Geert and Dee for their > > suggestions. > > > > I tried adding the suggested line (I'm running 5.2.1) > > but the response is: > > > > config: Error: device "acpica" is unknown > > config: 1 errors > > > > Do I need to be running a special kernel to enable > > acpica? Is there any other way to enable ACPI? Will > > I have to start a daemon after compiling the kernel to > > enable ACPI? > > There are two ways to do it. One of them is to add the line device > acpi to the kernel config and recompile the kernel. The second option > is to load acpi as a module. > kldload acpi.ko > > Alternatively you can put acpi_enable="YES" in /boot/loader.conf to > automate the process. And there is no daemon like apmd for acpi. It is > a KLM. > > Regards > S. Ok, so apparantly this is a difference between 4.x and 5.x. In 4.x, there is no LKM for this, and the line to add is indeed device acpica. Sorry from a 4.x-junkie ;-) GH -- :wq
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