From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Nov 25 18:31:20 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F63016A407 for ; Sat, 25 Nov 2006 18:31:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chriscureau@bellsouth.net) Received: from imf20aec.mail.bellsouth.net (imf20aec.mail.bellsouth.net [205.152.59.68]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE2BC43D53 for ; Sat, 25 Nov 2006 18:30:30 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from chriscureau@bellsouth.net) Received: from ibm62aec.bellsouth.net ([192.168.16.253]) by imf20aec.mail.bellsouth.net with ESMTP id <20061125183118.QFHZ23001.imf20aec.mail.bellsouth.net@ibm62aec.bellsouth.net> for ; Sat, 25 Nov 2006 13:31:18 -0500 Received: from mail.bellsouth.net ([192.168.16.253]) by ibm62aec.bellsouth.net with SMTP id <20061125183118.VVZQ25413.ibm62aec.bellsouth.net@mail.bellsouth.net> for ; Sat, 25 Nov 2006 13:31:18 -0500 X-Mailer: Openwave WebEngine, version 2.8.16.1 (webedge20-101-1106-101-20040924) X-Originating-IP: [72.148.88.22] From: To: Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2006 13:31:17 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <20061125183118.VVZQ25413.ibm62aec.bellsouth.net@mail.bellsouth.net> X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sat, 25 Nov 2006 18:39:35 +0000 Subject: 7.0-CURRENT-200611-amd64 console issues on install with Pavillion dv9000z X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2006 18:31:20 -0000 I recently bought a HP Pavillion dv9000z laptop with an AMD Turion processor and was pleased to see that 7.0-CURRENT-200611-amd64 was able to boot the machine. This is a definite improvement, as 6.2-RELEASE-beta3 wasn't able to even boot the machine. Many thanks to the FreeBSD developers for their hard work! Unfortunately, after the installation menu appears, the keyboard acts very strangely. I am able to go past the first screen if I press enter twice, and then the system responds no more to keystrokes, except to emit a console beep that never seems to end. I did break into the debugger as soon as the kernel had finished booting and the installer CD was being mounted, and the keyboard seems to respond fine. I was able to show irqs, and got output which seemed correct. I will admit now that I have used FreeBSD for only about a month now...but I come from many years of Linux use, and I would consider myself to be an expert. With a few suggestions, maybe I can figure a way around this. Thanks, Chris Cureau