From owner-freebsd-mobile Wed Mar 17 9: 3:28 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from isds.duke.edu (davinci.isds.duke.edu [152.3.22.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F283515285 for ; Wed, 17 Mar 1999 09:03:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sto@stat.Duke.EDU) Received: from cayenne.isds.duke.edu (cayenne.isds.duke.edu [152.3.22.11]) by isds.duke.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA09159 for ; Wed, 17 Mar 1999 12:03:05 -0500 (EST) Received: (from sto@localhost) by cayenne.isds.duke.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA27695 for freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG; Wed, 17 Mar 1999 12:03:05 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <19990317120304.A27659@stat.Duke.EDU> Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1999 12:03:04 -0500 From: "Sean O'Connell" To: FreeBSD mobile Subject: 3.1 Release versus HP Omnibook 900 Reply-To: "Sean O'Connell" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2 X-Organization: Institute of Statistics and Decision Sciences Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi All- In light of the CTX saga, I thought that I'd share my experience battling an HP Omnibook 900. I have highlighted the problem areas and or areas of interest. 1) A net installation just does not work. I had to wait until the optional (grrr) cdrom drive arrived. Pccard controller = TI PCI 1225 zp0 fails miserably (even if I set IRQ to 11 ... what Win95 attaches 3C589D on) I was unable to get pccardc to work with the install (tried to use a customize 3.1-Stable kernel and pcic and mfsroot to no avail ... addes pcic and ls and ps to mfsroot :) 2) Set machdep.pccard.pcic_irq=10 (Win95 has it on 10) does nothing. it will _always_ use 3 :( Doesn't matter whether it is loading the pcic.ko or using compiled in. Although, if you let it double load the pcic, the kld comes in at irq 9. Of course, attempting to unload it panics the machine: As we know, rc.pccard is bogus: I added a Q&D test builtin=`kldstat -v -n 1 | grep pcic | awk '{print $2}'` if [ $builtin = 'pcic' ] then echo "builtin" else kldload pcic.ko fi dmesg: PC-Card VLSI 82C146 (5 mem & 2 I/O windows ) pcic: controller irq 3 3) APM: Using flags 0x31 (though doesn't make any difference), typing apm will panic the machine instantly! Although, the manual stand-by and suspend to disk work just fine. As does bios initated events, but apm or zzz will crash the box. (I imagine that xbatt will too). 4) Sound card: device pcm0 at isa? tty irq 5 drq 1 flags 0x10 dmesg: ... try to indentify the yamaha pcm0 at 0x530 irq 5 drq 1 flags 0xa210 on isa mss_attach 0 at 0x530 irq 5 dam 1:0 flags 0xa210 yields decent volume (much better than flags 0x0). 5) Video: 256-bit NeoMagic MagicGraph NM2200 (NMG5) XFree86 SVGA seems to do an OK job (haven't tested this too much) 6) Booteasy: (Caveat ... I may have screwed something up here) Just locks the machine up solid. I hangs at the F1, F2 ... menu and beeps ... sigh ( I used fdisk /mbr to set FreeBSD as active ... no problem reinstalling). S -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sean O'Connell Email: sean@stat.Duke.EDU Institute of Statistics and Decision Sciences Phone: (919) 684-5419 Duke University Fax: (919) 684-8594 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message