From owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 18 13:08:04 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C70E616A494 for ; Thu, 18 Jan 2007 13:08:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from matti.k@bigpond.net.au) Received: from qsrv02ps.mx.bigpond.com (qsrv02ps.mx.bigpond.com [144.140.83.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 51EA313C44C for ; Thu, 18 Jan 2007 13:08:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from matti.k@bigpond.net.au) Received: from oaamta02ps.mx.bigpond.com ([138.130.173.220]) by omta02ps.mx.bigpond.com with ESMTP id <20070118112956.WRTD24597.omta02ps.mx.bigpond.com@oaamta02ps.mx.bigpond.com>; Thu, 18 Jan 2007 11:29:56 +0000 Received: from platypus.freebsd.home ([138.130.173.220]) by oaamta02ps.mx.bigpond.com with ESMTP id <20070118112956.DQNC17919.oaamta02ps.mx.bigpond.com@platypus.freebsd.home>; Thu, 18 Jan 2007 11:29:56 +0000 Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 22:27:46 +1100 From: matti k To: Tim McIntosh Message-ID: <20070118222746.096cdd73@platypus.freebsd.home> In-Reply-To: References: <88F3FB25-A363-4E91-A637-213116F58356@avalon.net> <45AE57A6.1040104@truthsolo.net> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.6.1 (GTK+ 2.10.6; i386-portbld-freebsd7.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Alpha PWS 433au (MiataGL) halts when booting installation CD, with "halt code = 5" X-BeenThere: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the Alpha List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 13:08:04 -0000 On Thu, 18 Jan 2007 00:49:56 -0600 Tim McIntosh wrote: > On Jan 17, 2007, at 11:06 AM, Rob Dosogne wrote: > > Tim McIntosh wrote: > >> I'm guessing the issue described in the following post may be the > >> cause of the problem? http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd- > >> alpha/2005-April/002294.html > >> The thing is, the QLogic SCSI controller is built-in on this > >> system, so there's no way to put it in front of the PCI-PCI > >> bridge. Is there any way to disable it, or disable the device > >> driver, as a work-around? > > > > I think you can disable the isp driver at the loader: > > > > set hint.isp.0.disable="1" > > > > although I have not tried this on my own machine yet. After > > installing > > you could recompile the kernel without isp or leave the disable > > line in > > your device.hints > > Well, that appears to have disabled the driver, but the problem > persists. Maybe the driver is not the cause, after all? > > Note that I now have a Mach64 graphics card installed in a 64-bit > slot. I don't think that's having any effect on this problem, but > I'll try it again without the graphics card when I get a chance. I have the same hardware except using SCSI hard drive and Matrox Millenium video card, had the same problem as you have described. I've just gotten a 6.2-R CD and did some testing. I get the same errors when the video card is plugged into either of the two 64-bit slots. Works fine in the 32-bit slots. I also have 128MB of memory (want more!) but I don't think this is an issue in regards to the halt errors. Lastly, I have a problem with web pages being rendered incorrectly when scrolling but think this may be a faulty video card as it was marked defective (i'm guessing for a reason). Cheers, Matti