freebsd port: apcupsd-3.14.3_1

[Guido Falsi]

On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 10:56:09AM -0500, Jeffrey Goldberg wrote:
> On Apr 30, 2008, at 10:31 AM, Mike Stammer wrote:
>
>> Last night i installed apcupsd and there was a post install message
>> mentioning to comment out the following in the kernel:
>>
>> device      uhid        # "Human Interface Devices"
>>
>> i do not think this is necessary anymore as I, in the process of
>> determining my first UPS was bad, tried a kernel both with and without
>> the line above commented out.
>
> Are you connecting to the UPS by USB or by old-fashioned serial (RS-232)?  
> I suspect that that message would only apply for RS-232 connections.
>
> But that is just a guess on my part.

Frm what I saw in the sources when I configured it, this was needed
because uhid would grab the USB connected UPS, while apcupsd tries to
use it through ugen.

But there is a quirk in the kernel forcing uhid to ignore any APC
product which fixes this problem.

-- 
Guido Falsi <mad at madpilot.net>