typo in handbook 11.16.3.2 System Hangs

John Baldwin jhb at FreeBSD.org
Fri Dec 17 16:54:54 UTC 2004


On Thursday 16 December 2004 08:26 pm, doug wrote:
> Your best hope when dealing with interrupt problems is to try disabling
> APIC support with hint.apic.0.disabled="1" in loader.conf.
>                   ^^^^
>
> acpi?

hint.apic.0.disabled disables APIC support (required for SMP), and 
hint.acpi.0.disabled disables ACPI support (does different things like power 
management, enumerate devices, etc.).  It can sometimes be helpful to disable 
either one or the other or both when having interrupt problems, however.

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