From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 10 06:09:20 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9140E16A422 for ; Fri, 10 Feb 2006 06:09:20 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from chrcoluk@gmail.com) Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.206]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9482A43D49 for ; Fri, 10 Feb 2006 06:09:19 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from chrcoluk@gmail.com) Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id i27so342722wra for ; Thu, 09 Feb 2006 22:09:18 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=oKphWRY7nuJKXyI+IHCLXeEuF17ST14LLGXU772L/v2JZElyiIfMBoJx9ePfkU2xU1P0xwnA8FU6XOG2W4iPmm0i2cLA1N3U3W4/ZLIr62gDuDlsnY9oF2bmGRP+5u8HTB6qkUJMTPkBvwHeX+j5sbQOS0ZgALEK/v9JCNEGkmY= Received: by 10.54.152.14 with SMTP id z14mr7125818wrd; Thu, 09 Feb 2006 22:09:18 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.54.113.13 with HTTP; Thu, 9 Feb 2006 22:09:18 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <3aaaa3a0602092209t53d228b4h@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 06:09:18 +0000 From: Chris To: "Mars G. Miro" In-Reply-To: <28edec3c0602090517t6967bd88l16eb63207bd16ffd@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <28edec3c0602032049l3d258a5cx72efe2c2ba4b23aa@mail.gmail.com> <43E8E353.1090900@dgeos.net> <28edec3c0602071826t5b619al24f0a93c713b5d30@mail.gmail.com> <20060209131840.0pgsy7fs1s0ocos0@mail.dgeos.net> <28edec3c0602090517t6967bd88l16eb63207bd16ffd@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: Geoffroy Desvernay , 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) X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 06:09:20 -0000 On 09/02/06, Mars G. Miro wrote: > > On 2/9/06, Geoffroy Desvernay wrote: > > Quoting "Mars G. Miro" : > > > > > On 2/8/06, Geoffroy Desvernay 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