Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2007 04:45:39 -0500 From: "Donald J. O'Neill" <duncan.fbsd@gmail.com> To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: First message Message-ID: <200709030445.40410.duncan.fbsd@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <f8a74a4a0709022053w678dc905vf3d2dafc573eddd2@mail.gmail.com> References: <f8a74a4a0709022053w678dc905vf3d2dafc573eddd2@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sunday 02 September 2007 10:53:15 pm Jo=E3o Henrique wrote: > Nice to meet you! > My notebook - HP Pavilion DV9308 - have a dual core AMD Turion64 chip and= a > video card by NVidia (GeForce 6150). > I can not install FreeBSD on it, because the system freezes completely wi= th > or without ACPI enabled on boot time. > I have tried a lot of tips, but this machine is die hard. > What kind of additional information must be furnished to help me to insta= ll > FreeBSD in my machine? > > Thank you! > Prof. Jo=E3o Henrique G. Borges > "Mac OS X proves that it's easier to make UNIX pretty than it is to make > Windows secure." I have a HP Pavillion DV9010us. What you are describing sounds like what=20 happened to me. I think your problem is with the installed BIOS. With the=20 second released version of the BIOS, FreeBSD would install but the CPU was= =20 not recognized as a dual core and ran at half speed. Any version after that= =20 and FreeBSD would not install, it just hung when booting up the install=20 disk; some versions of LINUX would install and operate, some would install= =20 but not operate, and some wouldn't install. By going back to the first=20 released version of the BIOS, FreeBSD amd64 stable would install, the CPU w= as=20 immediately recognized as a dual core and it ran at full speed. The problem= =20 was then: the nv driver didn't display adequately on the 17" widescreen, I= =20 needed the nVidia driver which doesn't exit for amd64. I then installed the= i=20 then installed FreeBSD i386 stable and things are fine. See if F.15 and/or f.16 BIOS is available for your notebook and try those. Don
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