From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 4 17:14:39 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2EFF016A4CE for ; Wed, 4 Feb 2004 17:14:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from msgdirector4.onetel.net.uk (msgdirector4.onetel.net.uk [212.67.96.160]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D26843D39 for ; Wed, 4 Feb 2004 17:14:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from matt@mattsnetwork.co.uk) Received: from central.local.mattsnetwork.co.uk ([213.78.100.127]) 3.3.6-GR) with ESMTP id BLE10519; Thu, 5 Feb 2004 01:14:34 GMT Received: from workstation1.local.mattsnetwork.co.uk (workstation1.local.mattsnetwork.co.uk [192.168.0.140]) i151EFHt059451; Thu, 5 Feb 2004 01:14:24 GMT (envelope-from matt@mattsnetwork.co.uk) From: Matt Dawson To: Doug White Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2004 01:12:24 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 References: <200402031202.42129.matt@mattsnetwork.co.uk> <20040204162237.D96240@carver.gumbysoft.com> In-Reply-To: <20040204162237.D96240@carver.gumbysoft.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description: clearsigned data Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200402050112.31798.matt@mattsnetwork.co.uk> X-MattsNetwork-Mailcheck-Information: Your god for today is available at admin@mattsnetwork.co.uk X-MattsNetwork-Mailcheck: Found to be clean X-MattsNetwork-Mailcheck-SpamCheck: not spam (whitelisted), SpamAssassin (score=0.089, required 5, AWL 0.09) cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Hacking the BIOS to get my floppy back? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2004 01:14:39 -0000 =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-----