From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Oct 30 14:40:37 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C2D8106564A for ; Sun, 30 Oct 2011 14:40:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from uffe@uffe.org) Received: from mail.starion.dk (mx0.starion.dk [93.162.70.34]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B44EF8FC08 for ; Sun, 30 Oct 2011 14:40:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 29514 invoked by uid 1004); 30 Oct 2011 14:14:07 -0000 Message-ID: <4EAD5B96.5080203@uffe.org> Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2011 15:13:42 +0100 From: Uffe Jakobsen X-Mozilla-Draft-Info: internal/draft; vcard=0; receipt=0; DSN=0; uuencode=0 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.23) Gecko/20110922 Lightning/1.0b2 Mnenhy/0.8.3 Thunderbird/3.1.15 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org References: <7003D4EE027640E6A49BFC84DD733D7F@Laptop> <20111028174052.GA1034@tiny> <20111029100803.GA96706@e-new.0x20.net> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: FreeBSD release Acer Aspire 5735Z X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2011 14:40:37 -0000 On 2011-10-29 20:16, Mubeesh ali wrote: > have seen acers get stuck on boot unless you turn off sata emulation > from ahci mode . So may be better to turn off ahci in bios, Not sure > if that issue is fixed ... > Af far as I know the problem is still there - and to me the root cause it still unknown. Quite many Acer net-/note-books models seem to be hit by this problem. I've got 3 acer netbooks with two of them shoving the problem. My Acer Aspire One 110 (quite old) does not have this problem. The following two Acer Aspire 1410 and Acer Aspire One 753 has the problem. I need to switch BIOS from SATA AHCI and back to plain IDE emu in order to make them boot FreeBSD. And the BOIS setting switch is not that easy because once the system hangs you cannot even get into the BIOS without removing the HDD. The system displays BIOS copyright message and then hangs forever (have waited an hour). This will go on until you remove the HDD then you can go into the BIOS and degrade from SATA AHCI to plain IDE emu - then everything will work and you can put the HDD back in. It is as if the BIOS expects something to be present on the disk. It could be the disk recovery partition - I think that Acer calls it something like D2D but even when disabling this option in the BIOS it still hangs with SATA AHCI enabled. At first I blamed the FBSD boot0 manager but I do not think that it is to blame anymore since the hang occours so early in the bios startup phase. The issue is mentioned here: http://freebsd.1045724.n5.nabble.com/Acer-Travelmate-8371-bricked-by-installing-FreeBSD-td4195859.html /Uffe > > On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 7:08 PM, Adrian Chadd wrote: >> On 29 October 2011 21:08, Lars Engels wrote: >> >>> And cross your fingers that the button to enable / disable wireless >>> works out of the box. Unfortunately there's no port of Linux' acer_acpi >>> [1] to FreeBSD. >>> >>> [1] http://code.google.com/p/aceracpi/ >> >> Please please please, can someone port this? >>