FreeBSD install problem on Asus A6T laptop.

Olivier Houchard mlfbsd at cognet.ci0.org
Thu Apr 26 09:53:13 UTC 2007


On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 10:23:34AM +0800, Ariff Abdullah wrote:
> On Thu, 26 Apr 2007 01:22:38 +0200
> Olivier Houchard <mlfbsd at cognet.ci0.org> wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 11:31:21PM +0400, stas.ibragimov at gmail.com
> > wrote:
> > > I am attemping to install FreeBSD Current into this laptop.System
> > > boot well, but working very very slow(switching to next virtual
> > > console took 5-10 minutes). What could be the reason of this?
> > > 
> > > 
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I've had a similar problem with an A7T, if I'm not mistaken it's due
> > to a bug in the thurion timer, you can use
> > machdep.cpu_idle_hlt="0"
> > in your loader.conf as a workaround.
> > 
> 
> This has been fixed few hours ago.
> 
> http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=401120+0+current/cvs-src
> 
> 

Great to hear ! It's been annoying me for some times.

Thanks for your work !

Olivier


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