On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 08:58:04PM +1100, Bruce Evans wrote: > It's not clear that disabling in the BIOS should disable for all OSes. What? That's a fairly weird interpretation. If I want to disable inside a given OS, I do that inside the OS. If I want to disable for _ALL_ OSes, then I disable in the BIOS. What reasonable logic can argue otherwise?
> Don't know. I avoid ACPI if possible :-). I suspect that FreeBSD can see > ACPI tables but not all BIOS tables, so any soft disabling in the BIOS gets > lost. Can you really use everything without ACPI? What is lost by disabling ACPI? Don't you lose power-down support at the least? (I did look for a FAQ on ACPI and found darn little) -- Joe Rhett senior geek SVcolo : Silicon Valley Colocation _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
