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Date:      Wed, 24 Mar 2004 13:54:02 -0500
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Cc:        "T. Green" <theodore.green@verizon.net>
Subject:   Re: ver 5.2.1 installation
Message-ID:  <200403241354.02076.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <200403221948.46366.max@love2party.net>
References:  <405DC2ED.7070208@verizon.net> <20040322102510.D1865@carver.gumbysoft.com> <200403221948.46366.max@love2party.net>

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On Monday 22 March 2004 01:48 pm, Max Laier wrote:
> On Monday 22 March 2004 19:26, Doug White wrote:
> > On Sun, 21 Mar 2004, T. Green wrote:
> > > Help
> > > Iwould like to know if this verison support intel ICH5 controller
> >
> > Seems to be working on a Tyan S2735 here at my office, but it appears
> > Asus motherboards have interrupt assignment/routing problems if ACPI &
> > APIC are enabled.  Otherwise it appears to be working with both PATA and
> > SATA channels.
>
> On my Asus P4P800 equipped with an ICH5 I have to disable usb to avoid
> interrupt storms while in X (w/o X everything seems to work fine).
>
> Truning off ACPI etc. does not boot the box at all, so I can't tell if it
> works w/o.
>
> I was wondering if it was my ATI graphic card (<ATI Radeon RV280 9200 SE>)
> which causes the troubles, but it turned out that the same card works just
> fine with an older Asus board using an ICH2 chipset.

Your ASUS board probably doesn't provide routing information for your graphics 
card which would explain hangs in X11 if it shares its IRQ line with the USB 
controllers.  Try disabling drm.

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John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>  <><  http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/
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