PC randomly freezes after 4.x upgrade to 6.x. How to disable acpi completely?

[Nate Lawson]

John Baldwin wrote:
> On Friday 06 April 2007 02:43, Ilmars Virpa wrote:
>> Hello!
>>
>> I upgraded my customer's FreeBSD from 4.x to 6.x series, but now the
>> PC ranodmly freezes (at least once in 24h) and needless to say
>> customer is very angry. I guess it could be related to ACPI (because
>> I've changed almost every part of hardware) so I want to disable it,
>> but how?
>>
>> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/acpi-overview.html
>> says:
>>   "ACPI can be disabled with the acpiconf(8) utility."
>> But I somehow don't see any option in acpiconf(8) how to disable ACPI.
>>
>> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/acpi-debug.html says:
>>   "hint.apic.0.disabled="1" in loader.conf."
> 
> That disables APIC.  To disable ACPI use 'hint.acpi.0.disabled=1'
> 

I've updated the handbook to be less misleading.  In any case, the man
page (man 4 acpi) is the definitive source for information, including
how to disable acpi.

-- 
Nate