ACPI problem?
Danny Braniss
danny at cs.huji.ac.il
Fri Jul 18 00:05:57 PDT 2003
> 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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