On Thu, 17 Oct 2002, Matthew Seaman wrote:

> Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2002 13:10:48 +0100
> From: Matthew Seaman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 06:05:15PM -0700, Wayne Lubin wrote:
> 
> > So does that means that this ACPI Power Management
> > Controller is not supported by freebsd? Or does it
> > mean that I need to compile the corresponding device
> > driver into the kernel and then it will be
> > recognized by freebsd?
> 
> > > --- "Brian M. Kincaid"
> > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > wrote:
> 
> > > > Chip Number: VT82C686A
> > > > Description: ACPI Power Management Controller
> 
> That's a supported chipset:
> 
>     happy-idiot-talk:~:% grep viapm /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/LINT
>     # viapm         VIA VT82C586B,596,686A and VT8233 SMBus controllers
>     device          viapm
> 
> You need to add:
> 
>     device            smbus
>     device            viapm
>     device            smb
> 

Where did you get 'viapm' from? Are *all* the possibilities documented 
somewhere? Is there a central resource for all the possible kernel 
config entries ? After seeing your post I found the 
viapm(4) man page but I never would have known about it otherwise.

I'll try it when I get home!

> to your kernel config, and build yourself a new kernel.  Works fine
> for my VT8233 SMBus controller.
> 
>       Cheers,
> 
>       Matthew
> 

Thanks - JB

#  John Bleichert 
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