Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2004 01:12:24 +0000 From: Matt Dawson <matt@mattsnetwork.co.uk> To: Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Hacking the BIOS to get my floppy back? Message-ID: <200402050112.31798.matt@mattsnetwork.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20040204162237.D96240@carver.gumbysoft.com> References: <200402031202.42129.matt@mattsnetwork.co.uk> <20040204162237.D96240@carver.gumbysoft.com>
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=2D----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 5 February 2004 12:26 am, you wrote: > First, it'd help to know what motherboard & BIOS version you're using, and > if you're on the latest revision. Hi Doug, Many thanks for the reply. The motherboard is an ASRock K7VT2 motherboard= =20 running the latest 1.30 AMI BIOS. There are no updates available higher tha= n=20 this number except a few "unofficial" overclocking hacked BIOS files. > > My question is this: How does one go about hacking the ACPI in the BIOS? > > Yes; use acpidump to extract the DSDT, hack, recompile with iasl (in ports > as acpica-tools or something like that), then use the dsdt_* loader.conf > options to load it. The actual options are on the acpi(4) man page, under > the section "OVERRIDING YOUR BIOS BYTECODE". I can't believe I had to be told to look in the man pages! This is usually= =20 first port of call. Your mail gives me some very useful pointers so I will= =20 investigate these with interest. > And actually, since Linux uses the same code drop, they may have the same > problems, and fixes, that FreeBSD needs, particularly if they are patches > to the DSDT. > > Check the archives for links on DSDT hacking. Thanks very much, will do. =2D --=20 Matt Dawson. =2D----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFAIZh8AmT9uY8euiIRAqDrAJ0bJ1Zk+lKtQ3QysIJ9ZMCj2fBRwACfS7FS lJWXWqrWCf7qHdfHbi+/kTc=3D =3Dbh3K =2D----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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