Re: how to make acpi go away.

2001-09-27 Thread John Baldwin
On 28-Sep-01 Warner Losh wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mike Smith writes: >: > > > I only found this out today when my Dell inspiron7500 >: > > > refused to boot past the ACPI message.. >: > > > Surprised me a bit as Mike has one of these. >: > > >: > > There's a well-documented and

Re: how to make acpi go away.

2001-09-27 Thread Warner Losh
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mike Smith writes: : > > > I only found this out today when my Dell inspiron7500 : > > > refused to boot past the ACPI message.. : > > > Surprised me a bit as Mike has one of these. : > > : > > There's a well-documented and necessary hack to work on these : > > ma

Re: how to make acpi go away.

2001-09-27 Thread Warner Losh
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Alfred Perlstein writes: : Can someone please share with us the magic to disable acpi and add : it to src/UPDATING, my sound fell victim to acpi and i think I just : lost my mouse to it. Now I have a lapbrick that consumes less : power... I'll have to add it to UPD

Re: how to make acpi go away.

2001-09-26 Thread Mike Smith
> > > I only found this out today when my Dell inspiron7500 > > > refused to boot past the ACPI message.. > > > Surprised me a bit as Mike has one of these. > > > > There's a well-documented and necessary hack to work on these > > machines; the actual nature of the problem still escapes me (deb

Re: how to make acpi go away.

2001-09-26 Thread Julian Elischer
On Wed, 26 Sep 2001, Mike Smith wrote: > > > > I only found this out today when my Dell inspiron7500 > > refused to boot past the ACPI message.. > > Surprised me a bit as Mike has one of these. > > There's a well-documented and necessary hack to work on these > machines; the actual nature o

Re: how to make acpi go away.

2001-09-26 Thread Mike Smith
> > I only found this out today when my Dell inspiron7500 > refused to boot past the ACPI message.. > Surprised me a bit as Mike has one of these. There's a well-documented and necessary hack to work on these machines; the actual nature of the problem still escapes me (debugging it is very tim

Re: how to make acpi go away.

2001-09-26 Thread Mitsuru IWASAKI
Hi, > > > try adding a line > > > > > > hint.acpi.0.disable="1" > > > > > > to /boot/device.hints, or disable it at boot time > > > > > > unset acpi_load > > > > > > then boot as usual. > > > > Thank you, that fixed everything. > > Also, this works too: > echo "NO_MODULES=

Re: how to make acpi go away.

2001-09-25 Thread Peter Wemm
Alfred Perlstein wrote: > * Donny Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010925 03:40] wrote: > > Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > > Can someone please share with us the magic to disable acpi and add > > > it to src/UPDATING, my sound fell victim to acpi and i think I just > > > lost my mouse to it. Now I have a la

Re: how to make acpi go away.

2001-09-25 Thread John Baldwin
On 25-Sep-01 Julian Elischer wrote: > >> Donny Lee wrote: >> > >> > Alfred Perlstein wrote: >> > > Can someone please share with us the magic to disable acpi and add >> > > it to src/UPDATING, my sound fell victim to acpi and i think I just >> > > lost my mouse to it. Now I have a lapbrick that

Re: how to make acpi go away.

2001-09-25 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Donny Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010925 03:40] wrote: > Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > Can someone please share with us the magic to disable acpi and add > > it to src/UPDATING, my sound fell victim to acpi and i think I just > > lost my mouse to it. Now I have a lapbrick that consumes less > > powe

Re: how to make acpi go away.

2001-09-25 Thread Julian Elischer
> Donny Lee wrote: > > > > Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > > Can someone please share with us the magic to disable acpi and add > > > it to src/UPDATING, my sound fell victim to acpi and i think I just > > > lost my mouse to it. Now I have a lapbrick that consumes less > > > power... > > > > try a

Re: how to make acpi go away.

2001-09-25 Thread Donny Lee
Alfred Perlstein wrote: > Can someone please share with us the magic to disable acpi and add > it to src/UPDATING, my sound fell victim to acpi and i think I just > lost my mouse to it. Now I have a lapbrick that consumes less > power... try adding a line hint.acpi.0.disable="1" to /bo

how to make acpi go away.

2001-09-24 Thread Alfred Perlstein
Can someone please share with us the magic to disable acpi and add it to src/UPDATING, my sound fell victim to acpi and i think I just lost my mouse to it. Now I have a lapbrick that consumes less power... "yay" -- -Alfred Perlstein [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 'Instead of asking why a piece of softwar