HP LC II Netserver ACPI problem

Denny White dennyboy at cableone.net
Sun May 29 08:48:10 PDT 2005


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I haven't found a way, no mention of it. Pretty
old BIOS. Went to HP's site, d/l the last one
one they had (even it was old) & flashed it.
Still pretty old comparatively.
As for the dmesg errors, yeah, I guess I'll have
to ignore them. I've tried everything I can to
get rid of them, but it ain't happening.
I read this in /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/NOTES:

device		eisa

# By default, only 10 EISA slots are probed, since the slot numbers
# above clash with the configuration address space of the PCI subsystem,
# and the EISA probe is not very smart about this.  This is sufficient
# for most machines, but in particular the HP NetServer LC series comes
# with an onboard AIC7770 dual-channel SCSI controller on EISA slot #11,
# thus you need to bump this figure to 12 for them.
options 	EISA_SLOTS=12

I recompiled my kernel with that option but it didn't help.
So, there are no choices in the BIOS for ACPI that I can find.
Nor is there anything about PNP except for a section where you
can reserve areas of memory, interrupts, ports, etc., for PNP.
But they're all set to the default, which is to be available
for the system. So, I guess I'm in ignoring mode until maybe
in the future when I find a fix. Thanks for the answer & help.


On Sun, 29 May 2005, Paul Dufresne wrote:

>> 1. Can't use ACPI on here. Machine not capable, apparently.
>>     Hence, the following:
> In my BIOS, I can enable and disable ACPI. (IBM PC 300GL).
> Could it be just that ACPI is disable in BIOS?
>
>> 2. Have apic enabled in kernel & no problems that I know of
> Watch out ACPI and apic are two different things.
> Your problem is with ACPI, when I boot without ACPI (option
> 2 in 5.4-RELEASE, I get the same error messages.
> Couldn't these messages be simply ignored?
>
> --Paul
>


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