From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 27 13:57:55 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C554C16A4CE for ; Thu, 27 Jan 2005 13:57:55 +0000 (GMT) Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.199]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E023043D2F for ; Thu, 27 Jan 2005 13:57:53 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from astrodog@gmail.com) Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 69so249351wra for ; Thu, 27 Jan 2005 05:57:50 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:references; b=l8oH+XKr3fouGAXr+h44bHxgmHXycBBxN+Dm4+vpUSibQKkG4umfJXR9oBIDeW7CkGwGndcHyYVjY3boZSopAhG5arFUdE3+Vgxj3r5CYU5c4cC6U1Rsluecj+r0z19bZc2VWHxfIP+OKAasIK5aJ7UWRo0gSBUU718mvcpQibg= Received: by 10.54.31.64 with SMTP id e64mr330436wre; Thu, 27 Jan 2005 05:57:49 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.54.40.65 with HTTP; Thu, 27 Jan 2005 05:57:49 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <2fd864e05012705577021db94@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 07:57:49 -0600 From: Astrodog To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <346a802205012704525b2d422e@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <20050126153006.GA42966@slackbox.xs4all.nl> <20050127060120.82334.qmail@web30701.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <346a802205012704525b2d422e@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: freebsd in compaq presario 900 X-BeenThere: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Astrodog List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the AMD64 platform List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 13:57:56 -0000 On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 07:52:05 -0500, Coleman Kane 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 wrote: > > > > --- Roland Smith 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