kama wrote:> Hi,
>
> there are a lot of different errors in various document regarding acpi
> that are wrong.
>
> In 'man acpi' it says that 'hint.acpi.0.disabled' should be
placed in
> loader.conf.
>
> -------------
> LOADER TUNABLES
> Tunables can be set at the loader(8) prompt before booting the kernel
> or
> stored in /boot/loader.conf. Many of these tunables also have a
> matching
> sysctl(8) entry for access after boot.
> ...
> hint.acpi.0.disabled
> Set this to 1 to disable all of ACPI. If ACPI has been
> disabled
> on your system due to a blacklist entry for your BIOS, you
> can
> set this to 0 to re-enable ACPI for testing.
> ...
> -------------
>
>
>
> In 'man loader' it says:
> -------------
> acpi_load
> Unset this to disable automatic loading of the ACPI module.
> See also hint.acpi.0.disabled in device.hints(5).
> -------------
>
> In 'man device.hints'
> -------------
> The following example disables the ACPI driver:
>
> hint.acpi.0.disabled="1"
> -------------
>
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/articles/laptop/article.html page also
> states that it should be in device.hints.
>
>
> Well, these are the ones I have found. There are a lot of misconfusion in
> various forums what to put where and how its done. Maybe its accurate on
> both places, but then that should be noted somewhere.
>
> /Bjorn
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I was told that there's no difference between loader.conf and
device.hints, so you can place this option in either file
--
SY, Marat
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