Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2000 18:16:34 -0700 From: Darryl Okahata <darrylo@soco.agilent.com> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Cc: Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG>, Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, Jay Kuri <jay@oneway.com>, hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD on Dell Inspiron Message-ID: <200008020116.SAA15805@mina.soco.agilent.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 01 Aug 2000 15:43:42 MDT." <4.3.2.7.2.20000801154059.04c50b80@localhost>
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Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> wrote:
> At 12:03 PM 8/1/2000, Mike Smith wrote:
>
> >Power the machine down before booting FreeBSD. Windows leaves the pcic in
> >CardBus mode.
Warner fixed this in 4.0-STABLE around May 29th. You shouldn't
have to power down if you are running a recent -STABLE (I imagine it
should also be fixed in 4.1, but I haven't verified this). I
occasionally boot into Win98, and I no longer have to power down when
booting back into FreeBSD (I'm using an old June 1 4.0-STABLE, though).
> As I mentioned in another message, the problem seems to be allocation of
> interrupts. On a machine where IRQ's 5 and 11 are taken by the sound
> hardware, and the pcic itself uses IRQ 10, none of the options in
Whatever you have, it's not an Inspiron 7500-clone. The sound on
the 7500 uses only one IRQ (#5).
You could try using polling mode for the pcic. That should free up
IRQ 10. Also, go into the BIOS and disable everything that you don't
use. On my 7500, I've disabled the IR port and the parallel port.
You also haven't provided a (verbose, preferably) dmesg, which is
pretty much mandatory if you want help for these problems.
--
Darryl Okahata
darrylo@soco.agilent.com
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