ACPI thermal polling on Abit AW8

[Bruno Ducrot]

On Sun, Dec 17, 2006 at 01:28:16PM -0800, Nate Lawson wrote:
> Bruno Ducrot wrote:
> >On Sat, Dec 16, 2006 at 07:29:50AM +0100, Erik Mossberg wrote:
> >>I'm getting spammed with an ACPI error message, which seems to be related 
> >>to
> >>thermal polling, this problem both occurs in 6.2-RC1 (generic) and
> >>7.0-CURRENT (15 dec). Seems it has been reported some time ago;
> >>http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-bugs/2006-August/019794.html
> >>
> >>My "workaround" so far to this is that i've set
> >>hw.acpi.thermal.polling_rateto some really high value (46800), to
> >>avoid the spam-age. Anyone know any
> >>better way around it? (apart from disabling ACPI)
> >
> >Yes.  Put
> >hint.acpi.disabled="thermal"
> >in your /boot/loader.conf
> >
> 
> That's actually:
> 
> debug.acpi.disabled="thermal"
> 
> Of course, all this is found in the man page, see "DISABLING ACPI":
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=acpi&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=FreeBSD+7-current&format=html
> 

Oops, yes.  I somewhat typed too fast.

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Bruno Ducrot

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