Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2005 01:55:57 +0100 From: Torfinn Ingolfsen <torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: FYI amd64 (MSI mainboard, MS-7093) - getting acpi working! Message-ID: <20050324015557.53b23176.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no>
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Hello, FYI: I have a new machine with a MSI RS480M2-IL (aka MS-7093) mainboard, and an AMD Athlon 64 3000+ (1.8 GHz) processor. It also has an ATI chipset and integrated graphics ("ATI Radeon XPRESS 200"). I have one stick of memory in it (512 Mbyte). I installed FreeBSD 5.4-BETA1 (amd64) on it. initially, I had to disable acpi in the boot menu, or else the machine would stop responding after printing the 'acd0: ...' line. It would sit there forever (or at least more than ten minutes). The bad thing is that with acpi disabled, there are lots of things that doesn't work (like the mouse, the usb ports, the firewire ports, etc.). The bios only have settings for acpi enabled or acpi disabled. acpi disabled has the same effect as booting without acpi (in the FreeBSD boot menu). However, after I read the Handbook chapter on acpi debugging again, I found a workaround. By writing the line: hint.apic.0.disabled="1" in /boot/loader.conf, the machine now boots with acpi working. At least so much of acpi that the mouse, usb and firewire ports seem to be working. I have tested the mouse and it works. -- Regards, Torfinn Ingolfsen, Norway
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