From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 28 03:44:00 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 00C6516A4CE for ; Mon, 28 Jun 2004 03:43:59 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail4.speakeasy.net (mail4.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.204]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7987543D2D for ; Mon, 28 Jun 2004 03:43:59 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: (qmail 20700 invoked from network); 28 Jun 2004 03:43:59 -0000 Received: from dsl027-160-063.atl1.dsl.speakeasy.net (HELO server.baldwin.cx) ([216.27.160.63]) (envelope-sender ) encrypted SMTP for ; 28 Jun 2004 03:43:58 -0000 Received: from 131.106.56.214 (p58.n-nypop02.stsn.com [199.106.89.58]) by server.baldwin.cx (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i5S3hg8l098960; Sun, 27 Jun 2004 23:43:43 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) From: John Baldwin To: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.org Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2004 23:38:08 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.6 References: <20040625181737.56e2c221@dserver-2> In-Reply-To: <20040625181737.56e2c221@dserver-2> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200406272338.08688.jhb@FreeBSD.org> X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on server.baldwin.cx cc: Marcos Hiroshi Umino Subject: Re: ECS/PCChips G713 - PCI problems X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 03:44:00 -0000 On Friday 25 June 2004 05:17 pm, Marcos Hiroshi Umino wrote: > Hello freemen. > > I'm new to the BSD world, I use gentoo linux on my notebook and I now > need to use freebsd in a server I'm managing. To better learn the tricks of > the OS, I decided to install freebsd on my notebook, an ECS/PCChips G713, > Sis746FX/963, Ati Radeon 9000M, Athlon XP-M 1600+. > > From my linux experience, I already know it's ACPI and APIC > implementation is very buggy. However, disabling both (and enabling APM) I > did had success installing linux on it. It's kernel is gentoo-2.6.7, quite > stable. > > However, booting from the installation FreeBSD 5.2.1 CD, I have to > disable ACPI, it does boot, but no PCI device is recognized. It seems a > very rare error, because no googling I did reported such problem. > > It does recognizes some unknown PNP devices, I can send these here, but > since the number of specific mailing lists is big, I decided first to ask > for advice. Should I try to solve it here or somewhere else? > > Anyway, some more data I gathered: > > I guess all the problems track down to the BIOS ACPI implementation. > Gentoo looks to be gathering PCI data not from ACPI, but somewhere else. > I'm no kernel expert, so I have no idea how it is done. > > pciconf -lv returns *NO* data, no error message, nothing. It simply > returns to the prompt. I see no data on /dev/pci. Booting with ACPI orders > me to reboot, last message says something about ACPI not able to gather pci > device table. Booting without ACPI tells me some unknown PNP devices > weren't enabled. Can you write down the exact error message you get telling you to reboot? -- John Baldwin <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve" = http://www.FreeBSD.org