Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2006 13:40:25 GMT From: "Andrew Pantyukhin" <infofarmer@FreeBSD.org> To: freebsd-i386@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: i386/104678: SMP not working on Turion XP Laptop Message-ID: <200611071340.kA7DePOZ072537@freefall.freebsd.org>
next in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
The following reply was made to PR i386/104678; it has been noted by GNATS. From: "Andrew Pantyukhin" <infofarmer@FreeBSD.org> To: "Rainer Alves" <rainer.alves@gmail.com> Cc: bug-followup@freebsd.org, danolson@visi.com, bde@zeta.org.au, jhb@freebsd.org Subject: Re: i386/104678: SMP not working on Turion XP Laptop Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2006 16:38:11 +0300 On 11/7/06, Rainer Alves <rainer.alves@gmail.com> wrote: > I own a HP dv9000 and the outcome here is even worse: FreeBSD is > completely unusable. > It doesn't matter if I disable APIC, ACPI or only SMP. > > - Booting without any hints results in the well-known keyboard slowness. > - Disabling APIC or ACPI results in a kernel panic while trying to > attach nve0 (nForce3), complete panic message available upon request. > - Disabling only SMP hangs the system after printing "ad0: ...". > > I've tried 6.2-BETA3 and 7.0-CURRENT (the snapshot ISO from 200610). > Don't know what else to do, any hints would be greatly appreciated. Try to set kern.timecounter.hardware=i8254 in /etc/sysctl.conf and start md5</dev/zero in the background. If you manage, that should make the system usable, but not glitch-free.
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?200611071340.kA7DePOZ072537>