On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 10:56:09AM -0500, Jeffrey Goldberg wrote: > On Apr 30, 2008, at 10:31 AM, Mike Stammer wrote: > >> Last night i installed apcupsd and there was a post install message >> mentioning to comment out the following in the kernel: >> >> device uhid # "Human Interface Devices" >> >> i do not think this is necessary anymore as I, in the process of >> determining my first UPS was bad, tried a kernel both with and without >> the line above commented out. > > Are you connecting to the UPS by USB or by old-fashioned serial (RS-232)? > I suspect that that message would only apply for RS-232 connections. > > But that is just a guess on my part.
Frm what I saw in the sources when I configured it, this was needed because uhid would grab the USB connected UPS, while apcupsd tries to use it through ugen. But there is a quirk in the kernel forcing uhid to ignore any APC product which fixes this problem. -- Guido Falsi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
