From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 10 14:33:22 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C1BEA1065686 for ; Sat, 10 Jan 2009 14:33:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: from mail4.sea5.speakeasy.net (mail4.sea5.speakeasy.net [69.17.117.6]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 972828FC12 for ; Sat, 10 Jan 2009 14:33:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: (qmail 23417 invoked from network); 10 Jan 2009 14:33:18 -0000 Received: from dsl092-078-145.bos1.dsl.speakeasy.net (HELO be-well.ilk.org) ([66.92.78.145]) (envelope-sender ) by mail4.sea5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 10 Jan 2009 14:33:18 -0000 Received: from lowell-desk.lan (lowell-desk.lan [172.30.250.6]) by be-well.ilk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 26AFB50842; Sat, 10 Jan 2009 09:33:12 -0500 (EST) Received: by lowell-desk.lan (Postfix, from userid 1147) id E6EB21CDE8; Sat, 10 Jan 2009 09:33:11 -0500 (EST) To: Zhang Weiwu References: <4966D81B.8050107@realss.com> <44bpug2u4t.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <496812BE.30405@realss.com> From: Lowell Gilbert Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2009 09:33:11 -0500 In-Reply-To: <496812BE.30405@realss.com> (Zhang Weiwu's message of "Sat\, 10 Jan 2009 11\:15\:10 +0800") Message-ID: <441vvb44ew.fsf@lowell-desk.lan> User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.3 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: newbie: does irq setting in device.hints work? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2009 14:33:23 -0000 Zhang Weiwu writes: > Lowell Gilbert wrote: >> Have you checked what happens if you disable your APIC? >> > You mean ACPI? No, I meant the APIC, the interrupt controller. But I don't think you can do that without compiling a special kernel for it, so it may not be worth trying. > You mean ACPI? When the PC boots, I got a menu looks alike this one: > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/install/boot-loader-menu.png > except my 2nd choice was "with ACPI enabled" instead of ACPI disabled. I > chose 2, result was the same (irq at 11) Sorry, I seem to be beyond my knowledge of PC hardware here. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/