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Date:      Sat, 10 May 2008 14:33:55 -0400
From:      Coleman Kane <cokane@FreeBSD.org>
To:        rar102@ra.msstate.edu
Cc:        freebsd-arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: compaq 6515b turion x2 laptop
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On Sat, 2008-05-10 at 12:13 -0500, rar102@ra.msstate.edu wrote:
> Quoting Coleman Kane <cokane@freebsd.org>:
>=20
> Yes!!! thank you.  Unfortunately, I don't have access to another amd64 bo=
x to
> try your patch.  Sorry.  But, I will look at the dmesg and send it to you=
.

Excellent. A dmesg will be very helpful for me to write a patch from, as
it will allow me to see if it is or is not the sound driver overlapping
memory in your case. I suspect that the BIOS images are so similar that
you probably even have almost the same bios-chosen memory regions on
your system.

>=20
> > RAR,
> >
> > You are in luck! Well, actually I have good news and I have bad news.
> > The good news is that I have nearly the same (6715b) laptop and
> > experienced similar problems when getting FreeBSD onto it. After some
> > work, I've been able to use FreeBSD reliably on the system.
> >
> > The bad news is that you probably have an overlap of PCI memory ranges
> > between the SATA controller and another device in the system (likely th=
e
> > audio controller).
> >
> > I put up a page describing the problem here:
> >
> http://www.cokane.org/dokuwiki/freebsd/amd64_compatibility#getting_the_hp=
_compaq_6715b_working
> >
> > Specifically, read this section:
> >
> http://www.cokane.org/dokuwiki/freebsd/amd64_compatibility#the_onboard_at=
i_sb600_hda_audio_controller
> >
> > Give me the weekend, and I will post a 7.0-RELEASE CD with the patch in
> > it. I figured that I should have done it a while ago. Oh well.
> >
> > While you are at it, see if you can use Scroll-Lock and the up/down key=
s
> > to read the kernel messages. See if you can find the atapci0 probe line
> > for your SATA controller (AHCI), as well as the line for your pcm0
> > device and send them back to me. I can add your info to my webpage to
> > help others.
> >
> > It will look like this:
> > atapci0: <ATI IXP600 SATA300 controller> port
> > 0x9000-0x9007,0x9008-0x900b,0x9010-0x9017,0x5018-0x501b,0x5020-0x502f m=
em
> > 0xd0609000-0xd06093ff irq 16 at device 18.0 on pci0
> > ...
> > pcm0: <ATI SB600 High Definition Audio Controller> mem 0xd0608000-0xd06=
0bfff
> > irq 16 at device 20.2 on pci0
> >
> > You'll notice the "mem" resource for the audio controller is
> > 0xd0608000-0xd060bff, and the "mem" resource for the SATA controller is
> > 0xd0609000-0xd06093ff. The SATA controller's "mem" resource is
> > completely covered by this audio controller.
> >
> > If you happen to have access to another machine for building your own
> > releases, you can try my patch and build them from it.
> >
> > --
> > Coleman Kane
> >
>=20
>=20
>=20

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