From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 16 12:47:10 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5733216A4D1 for ; Thu, 16 Sep 2004 12:47:10 +0000 (GMT) Received: from post-22.mail.nl.demon.net (post-22.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.192]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C013D43D5C for ; Thu, 16 Sep 2004 12:47:09 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from yuri.vanovermeeren@reston.demon.nl) Received: from reston.demon.nl ([212.238.216.87]:1184 helo=[192.168.1.100]) by post-22.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1C7veg-000C2E-59; Thu, 16 Sep 2004 12:47:07 +0000 Message-ID: <41498B3B.303@reston.demon.nl> Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 14:46:51 +0200 From: yuri van Overmeeren User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7.2 (Windows/20040707) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andriy Gapon References: <414975AF.7080208@icyb.net.ua> In-Reply-To: <414975AF.7080208@icyb.net.ua> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: nforce2 vs. apic X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: yuri.vanovermeeren@reston.demon.nl List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 12:47:10 -0000 Andriy Gapon wrote: >I have nforce2-based motherboard Abit NF7 and run 5.2.1-RELEASE on that >system. I have tried to enable APIC by compiling kernel with 'device >apic' (both with and without SMP option, although this is a UP system), >but system just freezes during boot with it. Everything works pretty >well without APIC, I was just curious about getting it to work. > >I found this discussion: > >http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2004-May/027316.html > >and I have also found numerous reports on nforce2+APIC lockup problem in >Linux and some patches that were reported to help with it. > >So, I want to find out if anything changed with respect to this in >FreeBSD, maybe some patches/workarounds, or success stories about >FreeBSD+nforce2+APIC. > >Also some notes about my lockup. It happens at this point (exerpt for >non-verbose non-APIC dmesg): > >psm0: irq 12 on atkbdc0 >psm0: model IntelliMouse, device ID 3 >pmtimer0 on isa0 >sc0: on isa0 >sc0: VGA <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x200> >vga0: at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa0000-0xbffff on isa0 >Timecounter "TSC" frequency 1830012912 Hz quality 800 >Timecounters tick every 10.000 msec >ipfw2 initialized, divert disabled, rule-based forwarding enabled, >default to accept, logging limited to 100 packets/entry by default ><<< In APIC case system freezes here >>> >GEOM: create disk ad0 dp=0xc6e15e60 >ad0: 76319MB [155061/16/63] at ata0-master UDMA100 >acd0: CDRW at ata1-master UDMA33 > >Also, when system freezes keyboard LEDs still work properly and cursor >disappears when I press Scroll Lock, but arrow and PgUp/PgDown do not >work; if I try Alt-F system speacker emits monotonic sound that can >not be turned off (except by reset, of course). > >I am ready to provide any additional information. Unfortunately I am not >able to use serial console, so I can't give much info for APIC-enabled case. > > > 5.2.1 freezes on a nforce2 mainboard with apci, I have a nforce2 (same abit board) based machine here running freebsd, never got the 5.2.1-release to work with acpi. It was fixed a little while after the release, 5-current has been running on the nforce2 for a while. If you can wait untill the 5.3-release,which should be in about 2~3 weeks, (and run 5.2.1 without acpi for that time) I would do that, 5.3 no longer has the lock-up issue. -yuri