ACPI thermal polling on Abit AW8

[Nate Lawson]

Bruno Ducrot wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 16, 2006 at 07:29:50AM +0100, Erik Mossberg wrote:
>> I'm getting spammed with an ACPI error message, which seems to be related to
>> thermal polling, this problem both occurs in 6.2-RC1 (generic) and
>> 7.0-CURRENT (15 dec). Seems it has been reported some time ago;
>> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-bugs/2006-August/019794.html
>>
>> My "workaround" so far to this is that i've set
>> hw.acpi.thermal.polling_rateto some really high value (46800), to
>> avoid the spam-age. Anyone know any
>> better way around it? (apart from disabling ACPI)
> 
> Yes.  Put
> hint.acpi.disabled="thermal"
> in your /boot/loader.conf
> 

That's actually:

debug.acpi.disabled="thermal"

Of course, all this is found in the man page, see "DISABLING ACPI":
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=acpi&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=FreeBSD+7-current&format=html

-- 
Nate