help: booting 5.2.1 hangs on pcm

[Bill Schmitt (SW)]

I've been having similar problems with the system hanging. I received a 
lot of  helpful information and suggestions here, and haven't tried 
installing X yet, but have gotten past the boot. Unfortunately, the 
solution (so far) has been to use an older release.

Nvidia has FreeBSD drivers posted on it's web site. In the README.txt 
file there, I found the statement,

"FreeBSD -STABLE versions older than 4.9 are not supported.
"Note that if you are using FreeBSD 4.10, the NVIDIA driver will not work
correctly by default; please refer to the FAQ section for details. If you
are using a -CURRENT kernel more recent than 05/25/2004, this may apply
to your system, as well."

There are instructions for applying patches, but they are all executed 
after BSD is running, and being a newbie myself I couldn't come up with 
a way to use them. So, I tried all the 5 installs and the 4.10 installs, 
and kept getting the same hanging installation until I got to 4.9. In my 
case, the hang happened after the line installing my CD Drive. During 
the 4.9 install, the next step is the switch to /root. There is a delay 
between the two (at first I thought I was back to the beginning again) 
but it did start. Again, I haven't gotten to X, yet.

If any of the regulars read this, how would I go about reporting this to 
the bug teams (or finding out if it is a known issue)?

Bill

esmaeel pashapouri wrote:

>Hello list.
>I am trying to setup freebsd on a new hp pavilion with
>the following configuration.
>cpu: amd64
>mem: 1Gb
>hd:  160 Gb
>gc: nVIDIA GeForce FX5200XT AGP 8X with 128Mb
>dvd: 1 nec dvd rw/cd rw
>cd:  1 cd 48x r
>sc: integrated sound card not sure on details of it
>but windows show it as ac97
>monitor: sharp 17" lcd
>
>I have downloaded and burned 5.2.1 amd64-disc1.iso and
>disk2 also.
>But when trying to boot of cd, the boot process starts
>and after the listing of some devices gets hanged, the
>last line on the screen is,
>pcm: measured ac97 link rate at 16109 Hz
>
>The hard boot gets the computer start over again.
>
>I have tried 5.3 beta3 and no succes there eather.
>
>Any pointer to any document or links to help get past
>this point would be apritiated greatly.
>
>thanks esmaeel
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