Re: setting dev.acpi_ibm.0.events at boot time

Dan Langille <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.mobile
Organization The FreeBSD Diary
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Norberto Meijome wrote:
> On Sun, 13 Apr 2008 13:19:39 -0400
> Dan Langille <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> I'm trying to set dev.acpi_ibm.0.events to 1.  I'm failing.  I can set 
>> it from the command line:
> [...]
>> I have tried /etc/sysctl.conf:
>>
>> $ grep ibm /etc/sysctl.conf
>> dev.acpi_ibm.0.events=1
>>
>> and /boot/loader.conf:
>>
>> $ grep ibm /boot/loader.conf
>> acpi_ibm_load="YES"
>> dev.acpi_ibm.0.events="1"
>>
>> Neither of which result in the desired results.
> 
> hi Dan,
> 
> sysctl.conf works ok for me:
> 
> # Needed for custom ACPI control
> # This will pass ACPI events to devd after acpi_ibm. 
> #    Custom devd config can be found in /usr/local/etc/devd
> dev.acpi_ibm.0.events=1
> 
> BUT i clearly remember that a few times, after rebuilding kernel (or world?)
> events wouldn't be set, as it is the case with you. It hasn't happened for a
> while..and I don't remember if it was on 6 or 7...
> 
> it just got fixed by building kernel again, i think... 

No new kernel here.  But it works no.  Not sure how or why, but it's 
working now.


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