Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 23:45:20 -0600 From: John <john@starfire.mn.org> To: Dinesh Nair <dinesh@alphaque.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problems with FreeBSD 4.8 on Compaq Armada M700 laptop Message-ID: <20040114234520.A56242@starfire.mn.org> In-Reply-To: <20040113162021.V336-100000@prophet.alphaque.com>; from dinesh@alphaque.com on Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 04:25:25PM %2B0800 References: <20040112080420.A60685@starfire.mn.org> <20040113162021.V336-100000@prophet.alphaque.com>
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On Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 04:25:25PM +0800, Dinesh Nair wrote: > > On Mon, 12 Jan 2004, John wrote: I have an update, additional information... Instead of getting the device ID line, i.e. > Jan 11 17:56:56 pearl /kernel: acd0: CDROM <Compaq CRN-8241B> at ata0-slave PIO I get Jan 11 18:09:55 pearl /kernel: ata0-slave: ATA identify retries exceeded I've looked at the sys/dev/ata/ata-all.c code - I wonder if I should just arbitarily raise the retry count a bit - what's everyone else getting for a CDROM ID string? Is it just this one? Something about booting from it initializes it in a way that the ata-all code doesn't? BTW - after some pain and agony, I've verified that I'm running the latest BIOS. The apm problem is solved - I missed the fact that in the 4.8R GENERIC kernel is was marked "disabled". Oops. The display problem is also solved. I missed the non-fatal error from the "startx" output stating that the "-bpp" parameter was deprecated. I switched to "-depth 24" and that worked, so I now have "DefaultDepth 24" in the X config file - and am now happily running xdm, OpenOffice, KDE, and all that fun stuff! That just leaves the the CD and the /dev/dsp issue when KDE starts... -- John Lind john@starfire.MN.ORG
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