Hello everyone I'm new to FreeBSD and really want to run it on my NVidia optiums laptop so I took 9.1 RC1 for a spin and tried playing around with the sysutils/acpi_call port and the ACPI method I used under Linux to turn off my Nvidia video card. The first time I tried it just worked. It output 0, I heard the fans spin down and
That's it, I don't know if someone can help, just wanted to share in the hope that it can be useful to someone with more skills and experience.
Claudio
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reported a battery increase of more than one hour (I guess there are better ways to tell if it was off but I didn't know any. After that I could not turn it back on but rebooting in Linux gave me the certainty that it was off (since on my laptop if it is rebooted,and not powered off and on again, with the NVidia card off the card is not re-initialized by the BIOS and basically disappears and doesn't get listed by lspci
). Anyway since then I haven't been able to power the NVidia card off again and I always get the Unknown object type '0' error. That's it, I don't know if someone can help, just wanted to share in the hope that it can be useful to someone with more skills and experience.
Claudio