From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Jul 26 13:20:03 1996 Return-Path: owner-stable Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id NAA21637 for stable-outgoing; Fri, 26 Jul 1996 13:20:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Sisyphos (Sisyphos.MI.Uni-Koeln.DE [134.95.212.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA21573; Fri, 26 Jul 1996 13:19:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from x14.mi.uni-koeln.de (annexr2-42.slip.Uni-Koeln.DE) by Sisyphos with SMTP id AA02254 (5.67b/IDA-1.5); Fri, 26 Jul 1996 22:18:52 +0200 Received: (from se@localhost) by x14.mi.uni-koeln.de (8.7.5/8.6.9) id VAA00299; Fri, 26 Jul 1996 21:43:44 +0200 (MET DST) Date: Fri, 26 Jul 1996 21:43:44 +0200 (MET DST) Message-Id: <199607261943.VAA00299@x14.mi.uni-koeln.de> From: Stefan Esser To: "Stefan Bethke" Cc: jkh@freebsd.org, "Stefan Esser" , current@freebsd.org, dg@root.com, "Marc G. Fournier" , stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ncr53c810 driver in sta In-Reply-To: References: Sender: owner-stable@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Stefan Bethke writes: > We have a similiar problem here: Asus SP3G-II (Neptune II chipset), 810, = > Quantum Fireball, but I'm not sure it is related to the 810 in any way. Well, the SP3G has originally been delivered with a Saturn II (rev. 4) chip set. Guess that is what you got ... (???) > It hangs sometimes on reboots, after clearing the screen. However, when = > it does, it corrupts the BIOS nvram, so I have to re-enter all BIOS = > settings :-( This is most likely a problem with your NVRAM (ie. a hardware problem). > > 5) do you know that the hang is not caused by some unrelated > > problem (BROKEN_KEYBOARD_RESET comes to mind :) ? > > Can you give me a pointer where to find an explanation of the broken = > reset? This has been discussed a few months ago. You may try to seach for the key word in an archive of the mailing lists. I had to add the "options BROKEN_KEYBOARD_RESET" line to the kernel config file of my ASUS SP3g ... Regards, STefan