ACPI and 4.9?

[Matthew Seaman]

On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 04:49:54PM -0600, Eric F Crist wrote:
> Hello List,
> 
> I have ACPI working on a desktop running 5.1 and everything works great.  If I 
> press the power button, the system shutsdown correctly, the monitor shuts off 
> after 30 minutes, etc.  I have a laptop that I'm not using 5.1, but 4.9 
> instead (for reasons, see previous posts re: mouse).  According to the 
> FreeBSD handbook, I can implement ACPI in 4.9 (rather than APM) by simply 
> adding device acpi to the kernel configuration.  I tried this and get:
> 
> device acpi unknown

Close, but no cigar.  It's

    device acpica

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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