[Novalug] Need help: Need to build Apcupsd on a FreeBSD 6.2 box

donjr djr1952@hotpop.com
Fri Jul 13 17:22:18 EDT 2007


With a BIOS that old the ability to Self Turn-Off the Power many not
even be built into the system.

You could always go the route of telling your UPS to CUT the power to
the system and get things working that way.

To replace ACPI with APM on a Debian 3.1

HUMMM I don't even have the APCI or apcid or apm packages installed on
my older Debian 3.1 based server.

  And from doing dmesg | grep -i ACPI I get:

 BIOS-e820: 000000000dff0000 - 000000000dff8000 (ACPI data)
 BIOS-e820: 000000000dff8000 - 000000000e000000 (ACPI NVS)
ACPI disabled because your bios is from 95 and too old
You can enable it with acpi=force
ACPI: Subsystem revision 20040326
ACPI: Interpreter disabled.
shpchp: acpi_shpchprm:get_device PCI ROOT HID fail=0x1001
pciehp: acpi_pciehprm:get_device PCI ROOT HID fail=0x1001

{-: And this systems been up for over seven(7) days and dmesg still
outputs everything from the first line of:

Linux version 2.4.27-2-386 (horms@tabatha.lab.ultramonkey.org) (gcc
version 3.3.5 (Debian 1:3.3.5-13)) #1 Wed Aug 17 09:33:35 UTC 2005

Or about 161 lines total.
. :-}


Just wasn't worth the overhead of the do-nothing-for-me subsystems.

-- DonJr

On Fri, 2007-07-13 at 10:55 -0700, Brandon Saxe wrote:
> Okay, so I did `dmesg | grep -i ACPI` and got:
> 
> ACPI disabled because your bios is from 2000 and too
> old
> You can enable it with acpi=force
> ACPI: Subsystem revision 20040326
> ACPI: Interpreter disabled.
> 
> I see why ACPI is disabled. If I wanted to use apm
> instead, do I have to load the driver manually? What's
> the correct way to do this on Debian 3.1?
> 
> TIA,
>   Brandon
> 

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-- 
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