From owner-freebsd-mobile Sun Oct 15 10: 6:41 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mail1.panix.com (mail1.panix.com [166.84.0.212]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AEFA137B66C for ; Sun, 15 Oct 2000 10:06:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from panix6.panix.com (panix6.panix.com [166.84.0.231]) by mail1.panix.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7433D4875A; Sun, 15 Oct 2000 13:06:10 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from evenson@localhost) by panix6.panix.com (8.8.8/8.7.1/PanixN1.0) id NAA15374; Sun, 15 Oct 2000 13:06:10 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: panix6.panix.com: evenson set sender to evenson@panix.com using -f To: jbw Cc: mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: New kernel freezes on startup: Dell Latitude CPxJ References: <20001015104246.A1282@home.com> From: Mark Evenson Date: 15 Oct 2000 13:06:10 -0400 In-Reply-To: jbw's message of "Sun, 15 Oct 2000 10:42:46 -0400" Message-ID: Lines: 32 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0805 (Gnus v5.8.5) Emacs/20.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org jbw writes: > A new kernel I built for my laptop a Dell Latitude CPxJ just freezes on reboot > and won't go any further. The message it stops at is the following > > ppi0: on ppbus0. > > After that it just hangs there until I power off. I then reboot and use > the GENERIC kernel which works fine. > > Any ideas? > I have had a similar problem on a Dell Lattitude CPx, a ThinkPad 570X, and a Gateway Solo 3150 when I attempt to put the pcic0 intreface in polling mode via the (now recommended in the 4_1_1_STABLE 'GENERIC'): device pcic0 at isa? irq 0 port 0x3e0 iomem 0xd0000 instead assign a specifc IRQ like: device pcic0 at isa? irq 10 port 0x3e0 iomem 0xd0000 My understanding of the actual PC IRQ architecture is somewhat fuzzy so I have not really tried to track down what is happening, but I do get the same symptoms as you are describing (a complete lockup). -- Mark Evenson "A screaming comes across the sky. It has happened before, but there is nothing to compare to it now." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message