Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 06:09:18 +0000 From: Chris <chrcoluk@gmail.com> To: "Mars G. Miro" <marsgmiro@gmail.com> Cc: Geoffroy Desvernay <dgeo@dgeos.net>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, bug-followup@freebsd.org Subject: Re: i386/86880: [hang] 6.0 hangs or reboots whilst 5.4 is stable (ASUS-A7NX motherboard with nforce2 chipset) Message-ID: <3aaaa3a0602092209t53d228b4h@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <28edec3c0602090517t6967bd88l16eb63207bd16ffd@mail.gmail.com> References: <28edec3c0602032049l3d258a5cx72efe2c2ba4b23aa@mail.gmail.com> <43E8E353.1090900@dgeos.net> <28edec3c0602071826t5b619al24f0a93c713b5d30@mail.gmail.com> <20060209131840.0pgsy7fs1s0ocos0@mail.dgeos.net> <28edec3c0602090517t6967bd88l16eb63207bd16ffd@mail.gmail.com>
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On 09/02/06, Mars G. Miro <marsgmiro@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 2/9/06, Geoffroy Desvernay <dgeo@dgeos.net> wrote: > > Quoting "Mars G. Miro" <marsgmiro@gmail.com>: > > > > > On 2/8/06, Geoffroy Desvernay <dgeo@dgeos.net> wrote: > > >> > > >> >>>I've got the same problem with an A7N8X-X (athlon 2000+) > motherboard > > and > > >> >>>6-STABLE (Build Feb, 2 2006). > > >> >>>booting with kernel.debug says nothing, seems to be hardware hang > but > > >> >>>doesn't happend with linux nor OpenBSD. Didn't tried 5.3 yet. > > >> >>>Hang after detection of ATA devices (floppy's light turns on, the= n > > hang) > > >> > > > >> > I've experienced this myself. Happens w/ nForce-based mobos and > > >> > certain shuttles. My fix has to always set the BIOS setting of the > HD > > >> > to LBA instead of Auto or CHS. > > >> > > > >> > Try this and report back ;-) > > >> > > > >> Tried this unsuccessfully, but fixing cpu freq to 100Mhz (instead of > > >> 133Mhz) seems to work... > > >> > > >> I've read something about disabling firewire in the bios, but I have > it > > >> on a separate card (not in the MB), and I can't remove it for the > > moment... > > >> > > > > > > Also try disabling APIC (not ACPI) as I've encountered several mobos > > > that have this implemented poorly w/c results in weird behaviors of > > > the OS. > > > > > >> I'm not kernel developper, but I may try patches or ? > > >> > > > > > > I'm not aware of any patches but I think this is just a hardware > > > config problem tho YMMV. > > > > > Working at 133Mhz with hint.apic.0.disabled=3D"1" in looader.conf. > > > > Thanks for that :) > > > > Actually, I was referring to disabling APIC in the BIOS, not in > FreeBSD. But I'm glad that it works ;-) > > > I saw at http://acpi.sf.net/dsdt/view.php?id=3D233 that a dsdt specific > > for this board is available... (not fixing all), could this fix > > anything in my case ? I think I'll give a try on of these days... > > > > That I have no clue ;-) > > > > Geoffroy > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > > This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. > > > > > > > > > cheers > mars > _______________________________________________ I noticed a few times now disabling acpi in 6.0 fixes some problems, but on the same hardware acpi will work on 5.4 is this to do with i386 support bee= n removed or are there other acpi changes under the hood? Chris
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