From owner-freebsd-smp Mon Aug 2 17:17:42 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Received: from thehousleys.net (frenchknot.ne.mediaone.net [24.218.96.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 831CE1509B for ; Mon, 2 Aug 1999 17:17:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jim@thehousleys.net) Received: from thehousleys.net (housley@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by thehousleys.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA01212; Mon, 2 Aug 1999 20:17:08 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jim@thehousleys.net) Message-ID: <37A63504.3B3EF84D@thehousleys.net> Date: Mon, 02 Aug 1999 20:17:08 -0400 From: "James E. Housley" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.2-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: frank@tinker.exit.com Cc: smp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ASUS P2B-DS versus SMP. References: <199908022128.OAA01822@realtime.exit.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Frank Mayhar wrote: > > Well, I went out and bought another PII 400 for my box, flashed my BIOS to > 1.009, installed the processor, and built 3.2-stable for SMP. I experienced > the same clock problems others have seen. I took a suggestion I saw in > -hackers and flashed back to 1.006. Sure enough, the problems went away. > > I would strongly urge anyone with one of these motherboards who is trying to > do SMP to contact ASUS (at tsd@asus.com) and report the problem. Maybe we > can actually either get the BIOS fixed, or see what FreeBSD is doing wrong, > if anything. (I sent my email to them this morning.) > -- Following multiple suggestions I got stats running on my ASUS P2B-D 3.x-Stable BIOS 1.008 by enabling APM in the bios and adding the following to my kernel. It didn't work until I added the flag 0x0020 # # Notes on APM # The flags takes the following meaning for apm0: # 0x0020 Statclock is broken. # 0x0011 Limit APM protocol to 1.1 or 1.0 # 0x0010 Limit APM protocol to 1.0 # device apm0 at isa? flags 0x0020 Jim. --- James E. Housley PGP: 1024/03983B4D System Supply, Inc. 2C 3F 3A 0D A8 D8 C3 13 Pager: pagejim@notepage.com 7C F0 B5 BF 27 8B 92 FE "The box said 'Requires Windows 95, NT, or better,' so I installed FreeBSD" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message