Re: FreeBSD 6 on Toshiba Tecra A4

On Tue, 2006-05-23 at 20:39 +1000, Ian Smith wrote:
> On Mon, 22 May 2006, Norberto Meijome wrote:
> 
>  > Yousef Raffah <[email protected]> wrote:
>  > > How can I have /dev/apm?
>  > 
>  > [...]
>  > Ian is right, but u may want to disable acpi too:
>  > /boot/device.hints:
>  > 
>  > #FOR ACPI
>  > ### APM vs ACPI
>  > hint.apm.0.disabled="1"
>  > hint.acpi.0.disabled="0"
>  > 
>  > #FOR APM
>  > ### APM vs ACPI
>  > hint.apm.0.disabled="0"
>  > hint.acpi.0.disabled="1"
> 
> Before posting I'd grep'd /boot/device.hints for acpi - none in 5.4-R -
> so was going to suggest trying booting w/out ACPI from the loader menu,
> but wasn't sure that was still in 6.x ..
> 
There wasn't any by default, I had to add it as Norberto suggested to
insure I have acpi disabled.

>  > (of course, the rest of the lines in device.hits shouldn't need to be changed.
> 
> Perhaps preferable to add any hint updates to /boot/loader.conf instead?
> 
I have commented out all my hints in /boot/loader.conf, which means I
only have the /boot/device.hints now (which has the above acpi and apm
lines)

> Hopefully Yousef's A4 (eventually) will do APM as well as your A2 ..
> 
I really hope so :(

> cheers, Ian
> 

--
Sincerely,
Yousef Raffah
Senior Systems Administrator
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