Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 00:31:09 +0100 From: Philip Paeps <philip@paeps.cx> To: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: I'm impressed, but ... Message-ID: <20021125233109.GA615@juno.home.paeps.cx> In-Reply-To: <3DE2A4FB.8E51F525@mindspring.com> References: <20021125004934.GA604@juno.home.paeps.cx> <20021125194122.GA17986@angelica.unixdaemons.com> <20021125202755.GA633@juno.home.paeps.cx> <3DE2A4FB.8E51F525@mindspring.com>
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On 2002-11-25 14:32:27 (-0800), Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> wrote:
> Philip Paeps wrote:
> > On 2002-11-25 14:41:22 (-0500), Hiten Pandya wrote:
> > > On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 01:49:34AM +0100, Philip Paeps wrote:
> > > > | unknown: <PNP0401> can't assign resources (port)
> > > > | unknown: <PNP0501> can't assign resources (port)
> > >
> > > Can you try changing the hardware tunable,
> > > hw.pci.allow_unsupported_io_range, to the value of 1 in your
> > > loader.conf. I think this should do it. You can then check this value
> > > after you booted by `sysctl hw.pci`.
> >
> > I'm afraid that doesn't cure the 'problem'.
>
> I think Hiten responded based on the "can't assign resource" messages,
> without reading all the way through; I sometimes do "kneee-jerk" responses
> to problem reports, as well. The reason his advice didn't help you suppress
> the messages is that the failure is in port and IRQ assignments, not in
> memory window assignments.
Aha, okay. I've just learned something new. :-)
> The problem is related to multiple claimants for the device: the BIOS, vs.
> the OS. If you change the BIOS settings for "PnP OS", the messages should
> "go away". Note that the messages are just warnings; they will not make
> anything "not work", given your configuration.
Thanks for the hint! I went fiddling with settings in my BIOS, and turned on
ACPI (there was no 'PnP OS' setting, but someone else mentioned ACPI earlier),
and the message is now gone. It's been replaced with a lot of messages
telling me that ACPI is working and happy to serve me.
> The "maildirs issue", I won't comment on, at this time.
I hope I can provide enough information for someone to solve it though :-) It
would be nice to be able to read my mail 'reliably' :-)
- Philip
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