Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2006 12:27:56 -0500 From: "Schleich, Arno Rene" <arnschle@iupui.edu> To: "Peter Jeremy" <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au> Cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: RE: HP Pavilion DV6110us notebook install problems Message-ID: <F2BFDD365DA00E40B88D14C0909203D1A8C5C3@iu-mssg-mbx104.ads.iu.edu> In-Reply-To: <20061230072952.GE45526@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org>
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Peter, Thanks You so much. The chipset is nvidia mcp51. I had tried tl "kldload snd_driver" but "cat /dev/sndstat" still doesn't show any pcm sound devices. I have meanwhile restored the original winxp oem system, but apart from being able to run applications I have no real insight into this system - no shell, no command line, so I wonder how I could obtain a list of PCI devices (actually the notebook is sold as having PCI Express) ? Interestingly, when I played with openSuse 10.2 the installation DVD offers an acpi analysis tool. It is my understanding that this tool deassmbles/decompiles the acpi tables and then recompiles/assembles it with a standard compliant kit.=20 http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=3D122145 offers a howto to get some idea how this works. I still got to figure out how to save it's output short of manually writing it down but (i) the non standard compliant Microsoft kit was used to built the acpi system=20 (ii) three errors were detected - Ethernet, processor thermal control and a third one, the meaning of which is still obscure to me. Regarding the smp - can't give any details, tried it once screen went blank, system had to be reinstalled, wouldn't reboot o/w. Wrt the wlan - if I ever get to this stage I'd definitely try to stay with 64bit as I gathered the impression from other postings that creating a 32/64bit hodgepodge seems to be opening the door for multiple problems. Arno -----Original Message----- From: Peter Jeremy [mailto:peterjeremy@optushome.com.au]=20 Sent: Saturday, December 30, 2006 2:30 AM To: Schleich, Arno Rene Cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HP Pavilion DV6110us notebook install problems On Thu, 2006-Dec-28 10:06:02 -0500, Schleich, Arno Rene wrote: >As the system is completely stuck at the moment I cannot get more info To correctly identify the drivers, we really need more details. Unless someone else has a dv6110us, this probably means either getting the system to a point where "pciconf -vl" works or extracting the PCI IDs from the Windows hardware list. >(i) From the start booting worked only with acpi >disabled Not a good sign. Exactly what happens is ACPI is enabled? >(ii) Sound never worked - I tried snd_hda and snd_ich >which had appeared to be most promising without any success They definitely won't work - both are Intel chipsets and I suspect you have an ATI chipset - try snd_atiixp >(iii) Smp does crash everything Details? >(iv) Cannot reboot/shutdown except by pressing the on/off >button Probably related to the lack of ACPI. >(vi) No trace of the wlan - everything related to atheros >compiled into a costum kernel You have a Broadcom chipset. As Scot pointed out, you will need to use NDIS with a Windows driver. I suspect the drivers he pointed you to are 32-bit. If you're running an amd64 kernel, you will need a Windows-64 driver - and they are rarer. AFAIK, HP don't support Win64 so you probably won't find them on the HP site. Broadcom won't support end-users - they expect you to go to your vendor for support. The drivers I have originated from Toshiba. >(vii) Power management crashes everything when enabled Again, please provide details. --=20 Peter Jeremy
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