Date: Sat, 10 May 2008 12:13:15 -0500 From: rar102@ra.msstate.edu To: Coleman Kane <cokane@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: compaq 6515b turion x2 laptop Message-ID: <1210439595.4825d7ab5c1df@webmail.msstate.edu> In-Reply-To: <1210437989.62567.17.camel@localhost> References: <1210436112.4825ca102cfce@webmail.msstate.edu> <1210437989.62567.17.camel@localhost>
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Quoting Coleman Kane <cokane@freebsd.org>: Yes!!! thank you. Unfortunately, I don't have access to another amd64 box to try your patch. Sorry. But, I will look at the dmesg and send it to you. > 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 the > 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_ati_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 keys > 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 mem > 0xd0609000-0xd06093ff irq 16 at device 18.0 on pci0 > ... > pcm0: <ATI SB600 High Definition Audio Controller> mem 0xd0608000-0xd060bfff > 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 >
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