From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 25 08:13:04 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E58DE16A4CE; Wed, 25 Feb 2004 08:13:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from chaos.fxp.org (chaos.fxp.org [209.251.159.150]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A790243D2F; Wed, 25 Feb 2004 08:13:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jedgar@fxp.org) Received: by chaos.fxp.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id C473A444; Wed, 25 Feb 2004 11:13:02 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2004 11:13:02 -0500 From: Chris Faulhaber To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org, freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20040225161302.GB91049@chaos.fxp.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="LZvS9be/3tNcYl/X" Content-Disposition: inline X-Mailer: socket() Subject: FreeBSD vs eMachines M6805 part II X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2004 16:13:04 -0000 --LZvS9be/3tNcYl/X Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable (crossposting to -amd64 and -mobile, please reply to either as appropriate. I'm not on -mobile so please include me in replies) I broke down last week and picked up an AMD Athlon 64-based eMachines M6805 Laptop. Overall I am quite happy with it. Under FreeBSD 5.2.1RC1 (i386) everything is supported except the internal winmodem and internal Broadcom 54g-based wireless adapter. Supported hardware on the laptop: Athlon 64 3000+, 512M RAM, 60G HD, CDRW/DVD-ROM, USB, Firewire, CF/Memory stick reader, Rhine II ethernet, 15.5" display with a ATI Radeon 9600 (requires XFree 3.99.xx). Very fast and quite affordable ($1300 after rebates from the local Best Buy). In order to get the ethernet controller and USB working I had to disable APIC support (same under Linux). ACPI seems to work fine under FreeBSD but Linux does not like the PCI handling and requires 'pci=3Dnoacpi'. So far I have had no luck getting FreeBSD 5.2.1-RC1 amd64 to boot on the laptop. The loader loads the kernel and displays the menu but upon before any messages from the kernel have shown on the console the machine locks. Same for NetBSD amd64. Linux amd64 works as well as FreeBSD i386 though. More info, including dmesg and pciconf info, can be found at http://www.fxp.org/jedgar/amd64/ Any help on getting FreeBSD amd64 supported would be greatly appreciated. --=20 Chris D. Faulhaber - jedgar@fxp.org - jedgar@FreeBSD.org -------------------------------------------------------- FreeBSD: The Power To Serve - http://www.FreeBSD.org --LZvS9be/3tNcYl/X Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (FreeBSD) Comment: FreeBSD: The Power To Serve iD8DBQFAPMmOObaG4P6BelARAj8BAJ9w1yGaXUX9BTB5EP9rTst5jwMDCACffUuD 9dfQ9tOWH9OsBqj6JT/x8CA= =wvBH -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --LZvS9be/3tNcYl/X--