Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2003 10:05:54 +0300 From: Danny Braniss <danny@cs.huji.ac.il> To: Nate Lawson <nate@root.org> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ACPI problem? Message-ID: <E19dPJS-000D1z-00@cs.huji.ac.il> In-Reply-To: Your message of Thu, 17 Jul 2003 10:09:23 -0700 (PDT) .
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> On Thu, 17 Jul 2003, Danny Braniss wrote: > > > Your asl seems bogus since there are a lot of unexpected values (i.e. for > > > TZ and EC port values). Since it worked in 4.8R, follow the instructions > > > for disabling ACPI. > > > > > > -Nate > > > > thanks, that did it, but now, is there anyway i can help fix this so > > acpi will work? i have several of this boxes and booting them diskless > > will be a problem. > > Try man acpi: > To disable the acpi driver completely, set the kernel environment vari- > able hint.acpi.0.disabled to 1. Some i386 machines totally fail to oper- > ate with some or all of ACPI disabled. Other i386 machines fail with > ACPI enabled. Non-i386 platforms do not support operating systems which > do not use ACPI. Disabling all or part of ACPI on non-i386 platforms may > result in a non-functional system. > > Hints can go in /boot/loader.conf. Later, after the system is working for > you, you can go back and install a new BIOS and see if that fixes the > problem with ACPI enabled. > > -Nate sorry, i guess i was not clear, i did 'unset acpi_load', and got the system up, i was offering to help in fixing the acpi (actually debugging, since my head hurts from reading the acpi stuff :-) thanks, danny
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