Need help configuring upsd, sound and logo saver on freebsd 8.0

[Frank Shute]

On Fri, Jan 01, 2010 at 05:00:38PM +0530, Manish Jain wrote:
>
> 
> Hello All,
> 
> I recently installed FreeBSD 8.0 on my amd64 system attached to an APC 
> UPS via USB and a RealTek HDA onboard soundcard. I chose 'logo' as the 
> screensaver during installation, and put snd_hda_load="YES" in 
> /boot/loader.conf and upsd_enable="YES" in /etc/rc.conf.
> 
> On booting, the sound driver gets loaded successfully and the APC UPS is 
> also detected (although there is no mention of the UPS in the output of 
> dmesg). I have the following problems :
> 
> 1) There is no sound. AFAIK, there is a sysctl parameter to be tuned for 
> setting the correct audio channel (in my case hdac1), but I have 
> forgotten the parameter name. Can someone please remind me ?

hw.snd.default_unit=1

in /etc/sysctl.conf ?

> 
> 2) upsd complains of inappropriate ioctl no matter which USB device node 
> I set in /usr/local/etc/upsd.conf. How can I set the device name 
> correctly so that the OS can shut itself down properly on extended power 
> failure ?

Have you tried sysutils/apcupsd. It's designed to work with APC upses.

Fairly easy to install & configure.

> 
> 3) For my console saver ('logo'), I get the following error message at 
> boot-time :
> 
> module_register_init: MOD_LOAD (logo_saver, 0xffffffff81044010, 0) error 19
> 
> 
> Happy New Year and Thanks for any help
> Manish Jain


Regards,

-- 

 Frank

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