command sudo sysctl dev.acpi_ibm.0.lcd_brightness=3 or a sequence of two changes: sudo sysctl dev.acpi_ibm.0.lcd_brightness=6 sudo sysctl dev.acpi_ibm.0.lcd_brightness=3 cause device disconnect: ahcich1: DISCONNECT requested ahcich1: AHCI reset... ahcich1: SATA connect timeout time=10000us status=00000000 ahcich1: AHCI reset: device not found (ada1:ahcich1:0:0:0): lost device (pass1:ahcich1:0:0:0): lost device (pass1:ahcich1:0:0:0): removing device entry This problem didn't occur on the same machine with 9.0-CURRENT (before -BETA1 I think).
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^Triage: close as OBE. I'm sorry that this PR never got looked at, but by now, 9.X is long out of support