From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 5 06:36:58 2004 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 7899C16A4CE for ; Tue, 5 Oct 2004 06:36:58 +0000 (GMT) Received: from spider.deepcore.dk (cpe.atm2-0-53484.0x50a6c9a6.abnxx9.customer.tele.dk [80.166.201.166]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD25E43D2F for ; Tue, 5 Oct 2004 06:36:57 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from sos@DeepCore.dk) Received: from [194.192.25.143] (laptop.deepcore.dk [194.192.25.143]) by spider.deepcore.dk (8.12.11/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i956aqpd052472; Tue, 5 Oct 2004 08:36:54 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from sos@DeepCore.dk) Message-ID: <416240FE.3090506@DeepCore.dk> Date: Tue, 05 Oct 2004 08:36:46 +0200 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?S=F8ren_Schmidt?= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7.2 (X11/20040802) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rick Morris References: <41620B5E.5070409@mos.us> In-Reply-To: <41620B5E.5070409@mos.us> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-mail-scanned: by DeepCore Virus & Spam killer v1.4 cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SiS 962/963 support? 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: Tue, 05 Oct 2004 06:36:58 -0000 Rick Morris wrote: > None of the betas for 5.3 will boot on my systems with the SiS 962 IDE > controllers. I notice that they are not listed in the Handbook under=20 > supported > hardware. Can anyone tell me whether there are plans to support this > chipset, and if so, what the status is? I've found various posts in=20 > -bugs and other lists mentioning this chipset in the past, but there=20 > seems to be no discussion of this for 5.x. All of our deployed units=20 > with 5.2.1 boot fine with this chipset, but 5.3 freezes on the ado: and= =20 > acdo: messages in boot. Even CTRL-ALT-DEL doesn't work, requiring a=20 > manual shutdown. >=20 > If anyone has worked on this problem, my company would be very=20 > interested in talking with you. The SiS southbridges should be supported, at least the two systems I=20 have here in the lab works just dandy. Could you mail me the output of a verbose boot from 5.2.1 and as far as=20 it gets on 5.3beta7 please ? Have you tried disabling ACPI and/or APIC ? Both the SiS systems here=20 have had very diffrent success with both of those during times... --=20 -S=F8ren