Date: Sat, 20 Dec 1997 17:26:32 +0100 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: Karl Pielorz <kpielorz@tdx.co.uk> Cc: mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PAO / FreeBSD 2.2.5 on HP OmniBook 800 Message-ID: <8860.882635192@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 20 Dec 1997 15:29:20 GMT." <349BE450.789B7D5@tdx.co.uk>
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In message <349BE450.789B7D5@tdx.co.uk>, Karl Pielorz writes: >Hi All, > >Can somone tell me whether I stand any chance at getting FreeBSD 2.2.5-RELEA >SE >to work on my HP OmniBook 800 laptop? This email is written from my HP800. Works fine. >I've looked at the PAO package - and this 'sort' of works - but fails - the >details are below... -Current works just fine. >The first problem I ran into with PAO is that unfortunately on the 800 you >can't change it's Sound systems second IRQ, which is permanently on IRQ 11. >The only way I can boot the disk is to disable the onboard sound system (to >free up the IRQ PAO needs) - though I don't mind doing this at the moment ;- I'm not using my sound stuff at all. That works. Remember to set the bios to "16bit cards" (or whatever it is), >not< to Cardbus. >2 x Texas Instruments PCI-1130 CardBus controllers, well, one, but it has two 'functions" one for each slot. >One which Win'95 puts at IRQ 15, $cd000-$cdfff >Another which Win'95 puts at IRQ 10, $ce000-cefff That should work. >If anyone has any advice on this, or any way I can get more IRQ's to choose >from on the boot disk (though I don't mind disabling sound to run FreeBSD) >please let me know, That worked for me. My Ether card is a IBM/National thing, which the if_ze driver recognizes, so I can boot a standard kernel. I havn't tried the PAO stuff. -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member phk@FreeBSD.ORG "Real hackers run -current on their laptop."
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