On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 1:41 AM, Jan Stary <h...@stare.cz> wrote: > On May 30 12:39:44, Todd wrote: > > On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 9:17 PM, Todd <norr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 1:22 PM, Marco Peereboom <sl...@peereboom.us > >wrote: > > > > > >> Can you run diffs? > > >> > > > > > > maybe, with some noob hand holding. > > > > > >> > > >> If not can you download and test a kernel? > > >> > > > > > > Absolutely! just tell me where to get it. > > > > > This is probably no shocking revelation to anyone, but I can boot a > custom > > kernel rebuilt with the line commented out of the config: > > acpicpu* at acpi? > > (You said "noob", so here's a friendly reminder) > > The Right Way to do this is not to build a custom kernel with a modified > config file, but to use the User Kernel Configuration *UKC) of the boot(8) > utility while booting the standard kernel and say > > > boot -c > > disable acpi > > quit > > There's no need to recompile anything, > the GENERIC kernel already has it all. > > http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq5.html#BootConfig > > Jan
That's what I like about OpenBSD. It's always easier than it first appears. I had looked at the config(8) man page and it wasn't clear to me that acpi could be disabled at boot time. But if had I searched the archive first, I would have found this. http://www.mail-archive.com/t...@openbsd.org/msg00277.html Thanks for the data.
