From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jul 25 13:46:11 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D49216A4CE for ; Sun, 25 Jul 2004 13:46:11 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (ns0.infracaninophile.co.uk [81.2.69.218]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA17E43D2F for ; Sun, 25 Jul 2004 13:46:09 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: from happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk (localhost.infracaninophile.co.uk [IPv6:::1])i6PDk4OV015620 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Sun, 25 Jul 2004 14:46:04 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from matthew@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: (from matthew@localhost)id i6PDk4Kx015619; Sun, 25 Jul 2004 14:46:04 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from matthew) Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2004 14:46:04 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman To: Vlad Tudorache Message-ID: <20040725134604.GD14398@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> Mail-Followup-To: Matthew Seaman , Vlad Tudorache , questions@freebsd.org References: <20040725083852.4250.qmail@s2.home.ro> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="zbGR4y+acU1DwHSi" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040725083852.4250.qmail@s2.home.ro> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i X-Greylist: Message not sent from an IPv4 address, not delayed by milter-greylist-1.5.3 (smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk [0.0.0.0]); Sun, 25 Jul 2004 14:46:04 +0100 (BST) X-Virus-Scanned: clamd / ClamAV version devel-20040705, clamav-milter version 0.74a on smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=2.63 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: I have a problem! X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2004 13:46:11 -0000 --zbGR4y+acU1DwHSi Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, Jul 25, 2004 at 08:38:52AM -0000, Vlad Tudorache wrote: > I'm using FreeBSD 4.10-RELEASE with two systems. Both have VIA > chipsets - the older KT133A (my parents' home) and the "newer" KM266 > (my home). For both of them I've compiled specific kernels, with > ACPI support. KT133A works perfectly - no errors, warnings or > anything of this kind. With KM266 there is a problem: fdc0 is NOT > detected, for the kernel cannot reserve I/O ports. With ACPI > disabled, on the other hand, USB subsytem reports various errors - > restarting one or more ports, then giving up with controller > configuration. The GENERIC kernel you provide works well when apm0 > is off (the ASROCK MB I use has only ACPI), but it has no ACPI > support. What can I do (in order to have ACPI, fdc0 and USB working > well)? [ Format recovered, as Greg says. Pressing the return key is good for your Karma] Other than waiting patiently, I don't think that there is actually a good solution to this problem right now. Turning on ACPI support kills access to the floppy drive on quite a few motherboards and for most available system versions. =20 There was this thread on freebsd-current@... quite recently, which offers a glimmer of hope that a fix is on the horizon, but no indication when, or indeed, if, anything will be MFC's to 4.x: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2004-June/028938.html Cheers, Matthew --=20 Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Marlow Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK --zbGR4y+acU1DwHSi Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFBA7mciD657aJF7eIRAnWHAJ9y2hfZTAjZdXrYZZres7rb0uaBkACffsAJ XFrtj+X57uAafwHRkohYQnc= =4GTX -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --zbGR4y+acU1DwHSi--