From owner-freebsd-acpi@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 7 10:14:28 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B06D116A405; Wed, 7 Feb 2007 10:14:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from hselasky@c2i.net) Received: from swip.net (mailfe09.swip.net [212.247.155.1]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7DF0C13C481; Wed, 7 Feb 2007 10:14:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from hselasky@c2i.net) X-Cloudmark-Score: 0.000000 [] Received: from [193.217.102.48] (account mc467741@c2i.net HELO [10.0.0.249]) by mailfe09.swip.net (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.0.12) with ESMTPA id 236237329; Wed, 07 Feb 2007 10:14:22 +0100 From: Hans Petter Selasky To: "Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri" Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2007 10:14:01 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 References: <200702061217.36453.hselasky@c2i.net> <200702062304.41236.hselasky@c2i.net> <499c70c0702070103v2c541de1v2d60281116ccd7b5@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <499c70c0702070103v2c541de1v2d60281116ccd7b5@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200702071014.01442.hselasky@c2i.net> Cc: freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org Subject: Re: APIC problem X-BeenThere: freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: ACPI and power management development List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2007 10:14:28 -0000 On Wednesday 07 February 2007 10:03, Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri wrote: > On 2/7/07, Hans Petter Selasky wrote: > > On Tuesday 06 February 2007 16:38, John Baldwin wrote: > > > On Tuesday 06 February 2007 06:17, Hans Petter Selasky wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > I have some problems with a HP pavillion dv2000 laptop. I need to use > > > > the following hint to make it work: > > > > > > > > hint.apic.0.disabled="1" > > > > > > > > I have currently tested it with FreeSBIE 2.0 (FreeBSD 6.2) and it > > > > freezes after the kernel has loaded. I tried to break into the > > > > debugger, but with no success. > > > > > > What if you do 'kern.smp.disabled=1' but leave APIC enabled? Also, > > > does it work ok if you disable just ACPI? (Does it use APIC in that > > > case, some machines don't.) > > > > I downloaded the following image, hence it has KDB built in: > > 7.0-CURRENT-200702-i386-bootonly.iso > > > > I've tried with and without SMP and it is the same. > > > > If I disable ACPI, then I get a "trap 9: general protection fault while > > in kernel mode" just after that "nve0" has been initialized. > > > > Instruction pointer: 0x70:0xffff > > stack pointer: 0x28:0xfd0 > > frame pointer: 0x28:0xf65 > > current process = 0 (swapper) > > > > >bt > > > > MAXCPU(....) > > > > When I type in "show intrcnt" in the debugger everything looks ok to me. > > No extremely high interrupt counts. > > > > What I can add to the description of this laptop is that it has Windows > > XP installed on the HDD. And not long ago it didn't want to boot anymore, > > so I had to do a "destructive system recovery". I've also noticed that if > > I don't use the "ESC" key during boot, to get the boot-selection menu, > > but just let the system auto-boot, many times the FreeBSD 7.0 ISO CD will > > fail with a corrupt symbol table, when it is loading the kernel. I don't > > believe it. Can it be that something resistant has attached to some > > interrupt vectors? Is there an easy way I can find out what is using up > > all the CPU from the debugger. I tried "ps", but it doesn't show the CPU > > usage per thread. > > > > Thanks, > > --HPS > > Could you disable the nve card in the bios? I see same report from a > Toshiba user regarding the nve ethernet card. That's not possible. No such option. :-( --HPS