About the cursed Compaq R3000

Nicolas Blais nb_root at videotron.ca
Thu Feb 10 17:38:41 PST 2005


Hi,

First I'd like give my thanks to Jung-uk Kim for making it possible to run 
FreeBSD (5.3-STABLE) on my Compaq R3240CA.  (This might sound like an oscar 
speech...)

To successfully make my Compaq work, I installed the acpi_ppc module (version  
20050210 @ http://www.spa.is.uec.ac.jp/~nfukuda/software/) and added the acpi 
fix (matd.diff) and fixed my stupid DSDT (r3000-asl.diff). Now it works fine, 
except for a couple of things.  

First, when it boots, it might hang right after detecting acd0.  If I force 
shutdown and reboot, it might work (50% chances of booting).

When it works, cpu speed stays around 797mhz even when "making world" and 
starting openoffice (cpu hog), although adjusting hw.acpi.cpu.px_control 
manually works great (fans starts withing seconds though...obviously).

rl0 watchdog timeouts were happening often until I removed device pccard, cbb 
and cardbus from my kernel.  I noticed that the realtek was sharing irq 18 
with the pccard so removing pccard solve it so far.

Broadcom 54G Wifi doesn't work so far.  I was able to load the driver with 
ndis but can't have it connect to my WPA network (I believe this is a problem 
with 5.3-STABLE since it is said that WPA works in -CURRENT).

No ATA or other problems except those mentionned. Sound works thru snd_ich.

I attached my kernel configuration and dmesg for those that might need it.  If 
anyone needs my patched DSDT (which should be the same as Jung-uk Kim's 
diff+r3000) just ask.

Nicolas.
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#
# COMPAQ R3240CA -- Kernel configuration file for FreeBSD/amd64
#

machine         amd64
cpu             HAMMER
ident           CLK02

# To statically compile in device wiring instead of /boot/device.hints
#hints          "GENERIC.hints"         # Default places to look for devices.

options         SCHED_4BSD              # 4BSD scheduler
options         PREEMPTION
options         INET                    # InterNETworking
options         INET6                   # IPv6 communications protocols
options         FFS                     # Berkeley Fast Filesystem
options         SOFTUPDATES             # Enable FFS soft updates support
options         UFS_ACL                 # Support for access control lists
options         UFS_DIRHASH             # Improve performance on big directories

[nicblais] /sys/amd64/conf# ls
CLK02          GENERIC.hints  NOTES          gethints.awk
GENERIC        Makefile       SMP
[nicblais] /sys/amd64/conf# cat CLK02
#
# COMPAQ R3240CA -- Kernel configuration file for FreeBSD/amd64
#

machine         amd64
cpu             HAMMER
ident           CLK02

# To statically compile in device wiring instead of /boot/device.hints
#hints          "GENERIC.hints"         # Default places to look for devices.

options         SCHED_4BSD              # 4BSD scheduler
options         PREEMPTION
options         INET                    # InterNETworking
options         INET6                   # IPv6 communications protocols
options         FFS                     # Berkeley Fast Filesystem
options         SOFTUPDATES             # Enable FFS soft updates support
options         UFS_ACL                 # Support for access control lists
options         UFS_DIRHASH             # Improve performance on big directories
options         MD_ROOT                 # MD is a potential root device
options         NTFS                    # NT File System
options         MSDOSFS                 # MSDOS Filesystem
options         CD9660                  # ISO 9660 Filesystem
options         PROCFS                  # Process filesystem (requires PSEUDOFS)
options         PSEUDOFS                # Pseudo-filesystem framework
options         GEOM_GPT                # GUID Partition Tables.
options         COMPAT_IA32             # Compatible with i386 binaries
options         COMPAT_FREEBSD4         # Compatible with FreeBSD4
options         SCSI_DELAY=15000        # Delay (in ms) before probing SCSI
options         KTRACE                  # ktrace(1) support
options         SYSVSHM                 # SYSV-style shared memory
options         SYSVMSG                 # SYSV-style message queues
options         SYSVSEM                 # SYSV-style semaphores
options         _KPOSIX_PRIORITY_SCHEDULING # Posix P1003_1B real-time extensions
options         KBD_INSTALL_CDEV        # install a CDEV entry in /dev
options         AHC_REG_PRETTY_PRINT    # Print register bitfields in debug
                                        # output.  Adds ~128k to driver.
options         AHD_REG_PRETTY_PRINT    # Print register bitfields in debug
                                        # output.  Adds ~215k to driver.
options         ADAPTIVE_GIANT          # Giant mutex is adaptive.

# Workarounds for some known-to-be-broken chipsets (nVidia nForce3-Pro150)
device          atpic           # 8259A compatability
options         NO_MIXED_MODE   # Don't penalize working chipsets

# Bus support.  Do not remove isa, even if you have no isa slots
device          acpi
device          isa
device          pci

# Floppy drives
device          fdc

# ATA and ATAPI devices
device          ata
device          atadisk         # ATA disk drives
device          ataraid         # ATA RAID drives
device          atapicd         # ATAPI CDROM drives
device          atapifd         # ATAPI floppy drives
device          atapist         # ATAPI tape drives
options         ATA_STATIC_ID   # Static device numbering

# SCSI peripherals
device          scbus           # SCSI bus (required for SCSI)
device          da              # Direct Access (disks)

# atkbdc0 controls both the keyboard and the PS/2 mouse
device          atkbdc          # AT keyboard controller
device          atkbd           # AT keyboard
device          psm             # PS/2 mouse

device          vga             # VGA video card driver
device          agp             # support several AGP chipsets


device          splash          # Splash screen and screen saver support

device          sound
device          snd_ich

# syscons is the default console driver, resembling an SCO console
device          sc

# PCCARD (PCMCIA) support
# PCMCIA and cardbus bridge support
#device         cbb             # cardbus (yenta) bridge
#device         pccard          # PC Card (16-bit) bus
#device         cardbus         # CardBus (32-bit) bus

# Serial (COM) ports
device          sio             # 8250, 16[45]50 based serial ports

# Parallel port
device          ppc
device          ppbus           # Parallel port bus (required)
device          lpt             # Printer
device          plip            # TCP/IP over parallel
device          ppi             # Parallel port interface device
#device         vpo             # Requires scbus and da

# If you've got a "dumb" serial or parallel PCI card that is
# supported by the puc(4) glue driver, uncomment the following
# line to enable it (connects to the sio and/or ppc drivers):
#device         puc

# PCI Ethernet NICs that use the common MII bus controller code.
# NOTE: Be sure to keep the 'device miibus' line in order to use these NICs!
device          miibus          # MII bus support
device          bfe             # Broadcom BCM440x 10/100 Ethernet
device          bge             # Broadcom BCM570xx Gigabit Ethernet
device          dc              # DEC/Intel 21143 and various workalikes
device          fxp             # Intel EtherExpress PRO/100B (82557, 82558)
device          pcn             # AMD Am79C97x PCI 10/100 (precedence over 'lnc')
device          re              # RealTek 8139C+/8169/8169S/8110S
device          rl              # RealTek 8129/8139
device          sf              # Adaptec AIC-6915 (``Starfire'')
device          sis             # Silicon Integrated Systems SiS 900/SiS 7016
device          sk              # SysKonnect SK-984x & SK-982x gigabit Ethernet
device          ste             # Sundance ST201 (D-Link DFE-550TX)
device          ti              # Alteon Networks Tigon I/II gigabit Ethernet
device          tl              # Texas Instruments ThunderLAN
device          tx              # SMC EtherPower II (83c170 ``EPIC'')
device          vge             # VIA VT612x gigabit ethernet
device          vr              # VIA Rhine, Rhine II
device          wb              # Winbond W89C840F
device          xl              # 3Com 3c90x (``Boomerang'', ``Cyclone'')

# Wireless NIC cards
device          wlan            # 802.11 support
device          an              # Aironet 4500/4800 802.11 wireless NICs.
device          awi             # BayStack 660 and others
device          wi              # WaveLAN/Intersil/Symbol 802.11 wireless NICs.

# Pseudo devices.
device          loop            # Network loopback
device          mem             # Memory and kernel memory devices
device          io              # I/O device
device          random          # Entropy device
device          ether           # Ethernet support
device          sl              # Kernel SLIP
device          ppp             # Kernel PPP
device          tun             # Packet tunnel.
device          pty             # Pseudo-ttys (telnet etc)
device          md              # Memory "disks"
device          gif             # IPv6 and IPv4 tunneling
device          faith           # IPv6-to-IPv4 relaying (translation)

# The `bpf' device enables the Berkeley Packet Filter.
# Be aware of the administrative consequences of enabling this!
device          bpf             # Berkeley packet filter

# USB support
device          uhci            # UHCI PCI->USB interface
device          ohci            # OHCI PCI->USB interface
device          usb             # USB Bus (required)
#device         udbp            # USB Double Bulk Pipe devices
device          ugen            # Generic
device          uhid            # "Human Interface Devices"
device          ukbd            # Keyboard
device          ulpt            # Printer
device          umass           # Disks/Mass storage - Requires scbus and da
device          ums             # Mouse
device          urio            # Diamond Rio 500 MP3 player
device          uscanner        # Scanners

# FireWire support
device          firewire        # FireWire bus code
device          sbp             # SCSI over FireWire (Requires scbus and da)
device          fwe             # Ethernet over FireWire (non-standard!)
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