From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue Aug 1 18:16:43 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from msgbas1tx.cos.agilent.com (msgbas1tx.cos.agilent.com [192.6.9.34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A0CF937BFAB; Tue, 1 Aug 2000 18:16:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from darrylo@soco.agilent.com) Received: from andom1.an.hp.com (andom1.an.hp.com [15.4.128.104]) by msgbas1tx.cos.agilent.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 59911551; Tue, 1 Aug 2000 19:16:38 -0600 (MDT) Received: from mina.soco.agilent.com (mina.soco.agilent.com [141.121.54.157]) by andom1.an.hp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 18CE56C1; Tue, 1 Aug 2000 21:16:36 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mina.soco.agilent.com (darrylo@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mina.soco.agilent.com (8.9.3 (PHNE_18979)/8.9.3 SMKit7.0) with ESMTP id SAA15805; Tue, 1 Aug 2000 18:16:35 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200008020116.SAA15805@mina.soco.agilent.com> To: Brett Glass Cc: Mike Smith , Greg Lehey , Jay Kuri , hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD on Dell Inspiron Reply-To: Darryl Okahata In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 01 Aug 2000 15:43:42 MDT." <4.3.2.7.2.20000801154059.04c50b80@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 1.5) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2000 18:16:34 -0700 From: Darryl Okahata Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Brett Glass wrote: > At 12:03 PM 8/1/2000, Mike Smith wrote: > > >Power the machine down before booting FreeBSD. Windows leaves the pcic in > >CardBus mode. Warner fixed this in 4.0-STABLE around May 29th. You shouldn't have to power down if you are running a recent -STABLE (I imagine it should also be fixed in 4.1, but I haven't verified this). I occasionally boot into Win98, and I no longer have to power down when booting back into FreeBSD (I'm using an old June 1 4.0-STABLE, though). > As I mentioned in another message, the problem seems to be allocation of > interrupts. On a machine where IRQ's 5 and 11 are taken by the sound > hardware, and the pcic itself uses IRQ 10, none of the options in Whatever you have, it's not an Inspiron 7500-clone. The sound on the 7500 uses only one IRQ (#5). You could try using polling mode for the pcic. That should free up IRQ 10. Also, go into the BIOS and disable everything that you don't use. On my 7500, I've disabled the IR port and the parallel port. You also haven't provided a (verbose, preferably) dmesg, which is pretty much mandatory if you want help for these problems. -- Darryl Okahata darrylo@soco.agilent.com DISCLAIMER: this message is the author's personal opinion and does not constitute the support, opinion, or policy of Agilent Technologies, or of the little green men that have been following him all day. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message