Date: Tue, 3 Aug 1999 01:21:14 -0700 (PDT) From: stalker <stalker@feerbsd.org> To: "James E. Housley" <jim@thehousleys.net> Cc: frank@tinker.exit.com, smp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ASUS P2B-DS versus SMP. Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9908030120170.51740-100000@is.lamefree.com> In-Reply-To: <37A63504.3B3EF84D@thehousleys.net>
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FYI to all p2b-d(s) owners, asus has posted the release of the version 1010 bios to their website.. http://www.asus.com.tw/ It says somethin in the release notes about a y2k fix.. stalks On Mon, 2 Aug 1999, James E. Housley wrote: > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message
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