Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 07:57:49 -0600 From: Astrodog <astrodog@gmail.com> To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: freebsd in compaq presario 900 Message-ID: <2fd864e05012705577021db94@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <346a802205012704525b2d422e@mail.gmail.com> References: <20050126153006.GA42966@slackbox.xs4all.nl> <20050127060120.82334.qmail@web30701.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <346a802205012704525b2d422e@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 07:52:05 -0500, Coleman Kane <zombyfork@gmail.com> wrote: > Possibly because a lot of the compaq R3000 and HP zv5000 problems are > related to the NVidia nForce chipset and not directly to the CPU. > > In fact, my GW 7422GX worked perfectly fine out-of-the-box with the > 5.3 install disc. I had to turn off write caching (hw.ata.wc=0) to > eliminate some ufs corruption. This laptop is based upon a VIA K8 > board and many of the components are similar to the K7 VIA boards. > > The only thing I needed to patch was the acpi_ppc driver for the > Cool'n'Quiet tech which seems to be replacing the PowerNOW! tech on > older athlons. My guess is the XP-M (based on the K8 Mobile core, > rather than the K7) also have the newer power saving tech. In > addition, the nForce platform seems to be popular as an integrated > alternative to the centrino platform, so HP seems to be moving in that > direction with their laptops. > > Many of the problems that have been attirbuted to the 'AMD64' platform > are artifacts of the platforms available for the AMD64 solutions, and > not the cpus themselves. Also, many of the new XP-M's are K8 cores, > but only run in short (32-bit) mode (I think). > > > On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 22:01:20 -0800 (PST), Neil Short <neshort@yahoo.com> wrote: > > > > --- Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> wrote: > > > > > BTW, AFAICT it doesn't have an amd64 chip, just a > > > regular 32 bit > > > Athlon. So you'd want to install an i386 version of > > > FreeBSD, not the > > > amd64 one. > > > > My laptop (HP ZV5000) is the same as the Compaq R3000. > > It has the same exact problems; although I ordered an > > Athlon XP-M processor for it (for some dumb reason). > > All the AMD64 patches for the compaq/hp laptops have > > been applicable to mine as well - even though the > > processor isn't 64 bit > > > > ===== > > If history always begins this morning, the world holds > > exciting surprises around every corner (241). > > --Ann Coulter. Treason. > > > > __________________________________________________ > > Do You Yahoo!? > > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > > http://mail.yahoo.com > > _______________________________________________ > > freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org mailing list > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-amd64 > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-amd64-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-amd64 > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-amd64-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > If its of interest to anyone, in the phone calls I've had with Compaq/HP trying to get documentation on some of this, they're aware of the issue and have been trying to get it resolved. Aparently nvidia ignored a few standards while doing the NF3 150 stuff for mobiles, thus causing the issues. I was also told it does extend to any notebook that uses an NForce3 based motherboard, that HP/Compaq manufactures. Maybe we should treat this as a FreeBSD-mobile issue, rather than an -AMD64 one? ---- Harrison Grundy
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