About the cursed Compaq R3000

[Coleman Kane]

I think you will also need to apply the skip_timer_override patch,
available here:
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-amd64/2005-January/003320.html
You will want to set the sysctl in loader.conf

There's also a cradbus (PCI) patch, in addition.
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-amd64/2005-January/003365.html

There is another sysctl+patch that you will need to get as well. This
one is for the APIC:
http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/htdig/freebsd-amd64/2005-January/003376.html

You'll also want to set hw.apic.skip_set_extint=1 in loader.conf as
well to activate this one. I think both of these will enable the timer
to actually work in freebsd.

--
coleman kane

On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 20:38:40 -0500, Nicolas Blais <nb_root at videotron.ca> wrote:
> 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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