Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2004 23:38:08 -0400 From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.org Cc: Marcos Hiroshi Umino <japa@mhu.eti.br> Subject: Re: ECS/PCChips G713 - PCI problems Message-ID: <200406272338.08688.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20040625181737.56e2c221@dserver-2> References: <20040625181737.56e2c221@dserver-2>
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On Friday 25 June 2004 05:17 pm, Marcos Hiroshi Umino wrote: > Hello freemen. > > I'm new to the BSD world, I use gentoo linux on my notebook and I now > need to use freebsd in a server I'm managing. To better learn the tricks of > the OS, I decided to install freebsd on my notebook, an ECS/PCChips G713, > Sis746FX/963, Ati Radeon 9000M, Athlon XP-M 1600+. > > From my linux experience, I already know it's ACPI and APIC > implementation is very buggy. However, disabling both (and enabling APM) I > did had success installing linux on it. It's kernel is gentoo-2.6.7, quite > stable. > > However, booting from the installation FreeBSD 5.2.1 CD, I have to > disable ACPI, it does boot, but no PCI device is recognized. It seems a > very rare error, because no googling I did reported such problem. > > It does recognizes some unknown PNP devices, I can send these here, but > since the number of specific mailing lists is big, I decided first to ask > for advice. Should I try to solve it here or somewhere else? > > Anyway, some more data I gathered: > > I guess all the problems track down to the BIOS ACPI implementation. > Gentoo looks to be gathering PCI data not from ACPI, but somewhere else. > I'm no kernel expert, so I have no idea how it is done. > > pciconf -lv returns *NO* data, no error message, nothing. It simply > returns to the prompt. I see no data on /dev/pci. Booting with ACPI orders > me to reboot, last message says something about ACPI not able to gather pci > device table. Booting without ACPI tells me some unknown PNP devices > weren't enabled. Can you write down the exact error message you get telling you to reboot? -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve" = http://www.FreeBSD.org
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