From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 25 07:12:42 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6162C37B401 for ; Wed, 25 Jun 2003 07:12:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from spider.deepcore.dk (cpe.atm2-0-56339.0x50c6aa0a.abnxx2.customer.tele.dk [80.198.170.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF55043F3F for ; Wed, 25 Jun 2003 07:12:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sos@spider.deepcore.dk) Received: (from sos@localhost) by spider.deepcore.dk (8.12.8p1/8.12.8) id h5PECdYs076351; Wed, 25 Jun 2003 16:12:39 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from sos) From: Soeren Schmidt Message-Id: <200306251412.h5PECdYs076351@spider.deepcore.dk> In-Reply-To: <20030625134950.GA24775@saltmine.radix.net> To: Thomas Dickey Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 16:12:39 +0200 (CEST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL98b (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: problem installing 4.7/4.8, etc X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 14:12:42 -0000 It seems Thomas Dickey wrote: > I'm setting up a new machine, and none of the current *BSD's install on it. > Linux works. The *BSD's choke during the device identification. Perhaps > someone on this list knows why. Attaching a copy of dmesg output from one > of the Linux's I installed. The *BSD's appear to be missing an interrupt > in the IDE/PCI bus hardware (about which I know little ;-) Hmm from the dmesg's it looks like a fairly new SiS chipset which is only supported in 5.1 forward, doesn't that work ? and if not how exactly does it fail ? -Søren