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Date:      Wed, 5 Jul 2006 08:38:44 -0400
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
To:        freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org
Cc:        othermark <atkin901@yahoo.com>
Subject:   Re: acpi on msi-9218 (-current) swaps sio0 and sio1
Message-ID:  <200607050838.44324.jhb@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <e81i17$h7u$1@sea.gmane.org>
References:  <e81i17$h7u$1@sea.gmane.org>

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On Thursday 29 June 2006 17:51, othermark wrote:
> 
> With acpi loaded on a msi-9218 motherboard, I'm seeing sio0 and sio1
> get 'swapped.'  Even though the kernel is compiled for console on 0x3f8,
> I've had to change the /etc/ttys to use ttyd1 so login is displayed when
> the system is booted.   
> 
> Empirically, this tells me that 0x3f8 is correct for sio0 (since the kernel
> and boot loader display fine using it as comconsole).   
> 
> Is there a way to force this to be consistant?   This is -current from Jun
> 8.  I will try a more recent kernel soon.   The following is a verbose boot
> log.  

This is because your BIOS lists them backwards in the ASL.  There isn't a
workaround currently short of fixing your ASL to list them in the COM1/COM2
order and building a custom dsdt.

-- 
John Baldwin



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